Post #1694182
2026-04-23 11:15 UTC
I just finished a small gig to create an offline geocoder for Brazil 🇧🇷.
I did it with Pelias Geocoder, an open source geocoder that relies on open data:
- @whosonfirst for the country / province / city boundaries
- OpenAddresses for addresses from authoritative (national, local) sources
- @openstreetmap for addresses and interpolation along streets
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@severo@mastodon.social 2026-04-23 11:15
What I did: - make it work locally (docker) with the example project for Portland. It requires downloading, preparing and importing 6GB of data to Elasticsearch, which is the engine inside Pelias - make it work locally for Brazil. It's a whole different dimension, which requires about 75GB and 12 hours of preparation. - import everything in a VirtualBox machine, using vagrant. - send the machine (100GB!) to the client. (...)