photon-pelias-adapter is a small API proxy to replace pelias geocoder with photon. We use this to replace pelias with photon in digitransit-ui

Supported pelias APIs:

• /v1/search
• /v1/reverse

Supported pelias paramters:

• for search
  • text
  • boundary.rect
  • focus.point
  • lang
  • returns empty results, if sources contains gtfs.
• for reverse
  • point.lat and point.lon
  • lang

Configuration:

• Set port via PORT environment variable. Default 8080.
• Set Photon endpoint via environment variable PHOTON_URL. Default https://photon.komoot.de.

How to start

Install required packages via npm install.

To run photon pelias with defaults (port 8080, connecting to https://photon.komoot.io/), run via

$ node index.js

else

$ node index.js

$ PHOTON_URL=https://photon.komoot.io/ PORT=8080 node index.js

Now you may test photon-pelias-adapter e.g. by requesting

http://localhost:8080/v1/search?text=Berlin