+ Airmail has a couple really unique features. It's designed to query against a remote + index and run on a relatively affordable VPS. The demo server is running on a t3a.medium with 4GB of + RAM. The main search index lives on S3 and is queried with range requests. The total cost of the + planet demo server is about $35/month, which is fairly low for a self-hosted planet geocoder on AWS. + The smallest x86_64 EC2 instance you could reasonably run a global Nominatim instance on is a + r5a.2xlarge, which costs about $325/month, and you have to pay for around 500GB of storage attached + to each serving instance as well. Pelias is cheaper than Nominatim, but still costs about $100/month + to run on EC2 after storage costs, if you use the recommended 8GB of RAM for Elasticsearch. These + cost savings are not without downsides. Latency on an Airmail request is pretty high, anywhere from + 100-1000ms, depending on how hot the cache is. There's some low hanging fruit for optimization, but + S3 range queries are always going to be slower than an SSD random read. +
+- Geocode the planet with Airmail + Search the planet with Airmail.
- Airmail is an extremely lightweight, open-source geocoder written in Rust. - Airmail is currently able to parse English queries like "1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW" and POI queries like - "Seattle Starbucks". + Airmail is an extremely lightweight, open-source geocoder written in Rust. A search engine for the + planet. Airmail is currently able to parse English queries like "1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW" and POI + queries like "Seattle Starbucks". Result quality is fair for English queries in North America, and + support for more regions and languages is next on the roadmap.
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