[dianashk]

Great point! As developers, we've all been there. Mapzen's mission is to create services that outlive the brand/company. Everything we do is open source and easy to stand up on your own.

Pelias, the project powering our Search service is written entirely in node.js + Elasticsearch, to make it accessible to the largest number of developers, because JavaScript.

We also host an instance of Pelias to make the service accessible for those that can't/won't run their own.

More details [here](https://mapzen.com/projects/search).