# Photon

Canonical: https://gisforweb.com/tools/photon/

Low-latency forward and reverse geocoder for OpenStreetMap data.

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.

## Details

- Type: web-app

- Categories: geocoding

- Open source: Yes

- Pricing model: open-source

- License: Apache-2.0

- Platforms: linux, macos, docker

## 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

## Project sources

- Website: https://photon.komoot.io/

- Repository: https://github.com/komoot/photon

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