Faster response times after an infrastructure upgrade
An infrastructure upgrade across our serving stack has reduced response times platform-wide, with no change to any request or response format.
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What IPv6 adoption still gets wrong across this industry
An IP lookup API that still treats IPv6 as a minor edge case is quietly treating a growing share of real internet traffic as an afterthought.
Self-hosting Open-Elevation vs using a managed endpoint
Open-Elevation can run on your own infrastructure or against a managed endpoint. Here is what each path actually costs in effort and money.
Self-hosting Nominatim vs using a hosted drop-in
Running your own Nominatim instance gives control at the cost of ongoing maintenance. Here is how that tradeoff compares to a hosted equivalent.
Faster time zone lookups after rebuilding our lookup table
The timezone lookup table behind every request has been rebuilt for speed, with no change to the request shape or response fields.