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smt88 on June 20, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: LocationIQ — Free and Fast Geocoding Service

Why does it take so long?

mtmail on June 20, 2016 [–]

Processing the raw data and generating a search index is quite resource (IO/RAM/CPU) intensive. Some geocoders (not twofishes) need 100GB of raw data.

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