Photon

About

Photon is an open-source geocoder built for OpenStreetMap data, offering low-latency forward and reverse search with typo tolerance and multilingual results. It's Elasticsearch-based, easy to self-host as a single jar, and komoot runs a free public demo server. A popular alternative to Nominatim when search-as-you-type behavior matters.

Features

• Search-as-you-type geocoding with typo tolerance
• Multilingual forward and reverse search
• Filter results by OSM tag and value
• Location bias and bounding-box filters
• Self-hostable as a single jar file
• Continuous updates from Nominatim imports

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