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Don't we have a bunch of these already, not least lat/lon rounded down to some precision? Why another?
I just want an easy-to-use, offline geocoder (mainly address to latlon but reverse would be cool too) that doesn't require terabytes of space, hundreds of gigabytes of RAM, and days to process. Handheld GPS units were doing this with only a few GB decades ago.
Why does this seemingly not exist as a FOSS project in $current_year?
I just use a lookup list with a few tenthousand cities. Cities don't move. Well, i also don't require exact position.
But thanks, this seems useful.
They actually do move... cities/towns/place names expand and contract, and incorporate and unincorporate all the time... it's a huge pain in the ass for our system at work. Some place names are also 100% made up by the USPS and only used by them, and guess what, you still gotta support it. Even the professional paid databases don't contain every possible place name people use.
And my comment was more about geocoding of exact addresses, not whole cities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Location_Code Google maps and OSMand support this standard.