Feroeg - Reverse Geocoding

From now the Feroeg reverse geocoding service is available from the RapidAPI Hub located at https://rapidapi.com/hub . RapidAPI is a web hub allowing businesses to connect disparate API gateways, publish APIs deployed across multiple environments, and more. The service is offered free of charge. It's not requested to give credits to Feroeg.com. The user can query at maximum 50000 requests per day. The rate limit is 60 queries/minute. The advanced batch geocode feature will not be available using the API from RapidAPI but is accessible querying directly at our website.    We think that the web visibility of the www.feroeg.com site will be improved in the next months.

Last week I worked successfully on tuning and improving the performance of the reverse geocoding engine. We have used a tool, named K6 , to do some load tests. The test consists of doing massive requests to the service using a customized script to generate random geocoding queries all around the world. The first results showed a speed of about 200 queries/second as about 800K in an Hour. Working on tuning SQLite compile and configuration parameters we are able to surpass 1 Million queries in an Hour , about 300 geocoding queries/seconds. The decision to use SQLite than other DBs, like PostgreSQL, was deliberately done by design. There is a small presentation that explain this decision. We have also fixed a problem of instability of the service (crash), that emerged during the tests. We apologize to our users or customers (apparently no one 😇) for the abrupt interruption of the service caused by our stress tests. As I'm writing this text, a big load test of 24 hr is undergone...  ...

Two of three people I showed the Feroeg website told me that the logo was missing. The truth is that the logo was so ugly they haven't the courage to say that. So I have started to think for a 'new' logo for the Feroeg reverse geocoding service. The inspiration comes from an old sci-fi movie that was out in the 1994: Stargate. the story is based on the finding of an ancient, big ring: the stargate. This artifact was used by our ancestors for traveling to the stars, transporting people from earth to another world in a few seconds.   The image on the left as you see is the movie poster. The logo is based on a hieroglyphic present in the stargate. The logo is representing the 'Point of Origin': the earth. Where is the logo, then? Visit our site to see it! In the meanwhile, we have integrated the OpenAddress data set into the service. It is a big improvement in accuracy because it contains millions of street address numbers, but I have noticed a slow down in the servi...

Good morning. In this first post, I want to introduce Feroeg, a free service of reverse geocoding. Reverse geocoding is the process of converting a location as described by  geographic coordinates  (latitude, longitude) to a human-readable address or place name. So, if you think that your company, or yourself, can benefit from this kind of service, please give it a try visiting my web site, www.feroeg.com . The data are taken from  OpenStreetMap . At the moment the service is at the starting phase. Other features and improvements will be added, as the posts in the blog.