Edit: In addition to the RAM requirements, you need a persistent volume containing the entire index attached to each serving instance, which is a real bummer when you want to scale horizontally.
> When you write like this it sounds very unprofessional. Also you are basically saying "this is really expensive, unless it isn't".
Likewise actually, it's kind of unprofessional to respond in this way to somebody's personal writing style for a writeup on her personal blog about a personal project. Go read some other Show HN thread, there's lots of genuinely cool stuff here, no need to pick on someone for writing in a way you disapprove of.
This is just as unprofessional and condescending.
edit: Looks like it is in fact against the rules, but I think I'm tentatively going to leave the comment up because I did provide a valuable answer to the parent commenter's question. Mods can do what they will of course. :)
I don't know why people are paying $100 a month unless they just don't know about other options. To me it seems like something that has been around for a very long time and is now being resold under a new label of "geocoding", like $400 headphones or the famous "toasted" lucky strikes line.
I guess people pay for filtered DNS servers and that is even more trivial, so maybe I'm out of touch, but those don't cost much either.
No. This is a demo of an open-source project that I've released for free.
> To me it seems like something that has been around for a very long time and is now being resold under a new label of "geocoding"
That's just what this class of software is called.
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/o...
https://docs.mapbox.com/api/search/geocoding/
https://github.com/komoot/photon
https://www.here.com/platform/geocoding
https://developer.tomtom.com/geocoding-api/documentation/geo...
https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/
https://github.com/Qwant/mimirsbrunn
All of these call themselves geocoders.
> 25 years ago tiny contained $100 GPS units had the entire US on a 2 GB flash card.
Yeah! Super cool feat of engineering accomplished mostly by requiring you to do structured search, if I remember correctly. I never drove with one as they were a bit before my time. I remember them being very fiddly, but that was an observation I made from the back seat of a car as a child so, grain of salt. And yes to google maps offering this for free as a part of their maps client. Not free if you're a 3rd party software developer though, as you'll see if you click through the first link I posted above.
When you write like this it sounds very unprofessional. Also you are basically saying "this is really expensive, unless it isn't".
Why is there any difficulty in this at all? Why would this even need to be something someone subscribes to? It is basically a nearest neighbor search.