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		thampiman on March 28, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A fast, offline reverse geocoder in Python I should think so. I've tried nominatim/osm data but it took forever to query a large set of coordinates. I was only interested in knowing the nearest city and admin regions 1/2. And this library is really fast... ~20s to lookup 10M coordinates on my MBP. If you'd however like to know the full address, then this is maybe not a good idea.

dexterbt1 on March 28, 2015 [–]

That's fast. Though yes, our use case involves reverse geo of full street level addresses. Currently we do several 10s to 100s of req/s on nominatim.

The sibling thread asked about using OSM data; it'd be awesome if street level OSM data is workable.

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