New Feroeg Logo taken from Stargate

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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 service. There are planned improvements to speed up the reverse geocoding query but we have to go on. 





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