One of the nice out-of-the-box systems I've come across is Pelias[0], what are your opinions on it? It bundles and provides the API so it's one of the things I've thought to self-host if I'm going to. It looks like it doesn't do tiles so I'd need to find something for that?

From deep in my bookmarks I also have:

- https://github.com/tidwall/tile38 (in-memory search+geofencing+other)

- https://openlayers.org/ (visualization, alternative to leaflet?)

- https://download.geofabrik.de/ (where to actually download the OSM data, to hand it to something like PostGIS)

- https://github.com/maptiler/tileserver-gl (A tile server... which presumably needs OSM data & takes coordinates with bounding box parameters?)

> I do have a decade of experience building web mapping applications > I don't have a GIS background in particular;

It's only on HN that you get statements like this, haha, what do you think 10 years of experience building mapping applications is? I building mapping applications is generally what people consider "GIS background" -- if you did GIS but never produced any maps... would the trees make a sound?

[0]: https://pelias.io/

* The technical part of the academic Geography field

* Data collection and mapping work done at agencies like the USGS and municipal governments

* Work done with ESRI software (see https://joemorrison.medium.com/esri-cant-be-stopped-3b063f3d...)

Yes, Pelias is a mature project backed by a great team at https://geocode.earth - definitely one of the best options if you need an autocompleting geocoder based on OSM+other data like http://whosonfirst.org

About OSM data extracts, I also run an extracts service at http://protomaps.com/extracts that provides on-demand data updated once a minute.