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kami8845
on June 20, 2016
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LocationIQ — Free and Fast Geocoding Service
Here is the Docker image for the geocoding stack that foursquare uses, with all world data already set up (would take you about a day to set up yourself):
https://github.com/doda/docker-twofishes-geocoder
smt88
on June 20, 2016
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Why does it take so long?
mtmail
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Processing the raw data and generating a search index is quite resource (IO/RAM/CPU) intensive. Some geocoders (not twofishes) need 100GB of raw data.
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