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by spectre256 2725 days ago
Oh wow I didn't realize there were so many! And yeah, geoparsing is a huge challenge above and beyond "standard" geocoding. Specialization like that is a great asset.

For us, we've really been focusing on the customization of Pelias for people who have specific needs. We have Elasticsearch under the hood which is perfect for that sort of thing, and the nature of customization is that an AMI probably can't do what our clients need. But probably someday it will make sense.