Sarah Hoffmann
Sarah is a long term contributor to OSM. She started mapping in 2008, mostly having fun hiking through the Swiss mountains and mapping all the trails. Then she became increasingly involved with the programming side of OSM. She is now maintainer for waymarkedtrails, pyosmium, osm2pgsql, photon and Nominatim. She makes a living as a free-lance software developer.
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Session
Geocoders APIs are usually generalised to return results that are good enough for most people. In this talk we want to talk about how to create a geocoder that is specialized for your use case and returns results that are best for your users. The talk introduces the newest features of the Photon geocoder and shows how they can be used to easily set up a truly customized search engine. We'll explain along the way the basic principles how a geocoder does its job and
what kind of data it needs to do it.