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## How it is made?

The data is fetched from OpenStreetMap using [overpass-turbo API](http://overpass-turbo.eu/). While that API
is free (as long as you follow ODbL licenses), it can be rate-limited and sometimes it slow. After all
is free (as long as you follow ODbL licenses), it can be rate-limited and sometimes it is slow. After all
we are downloading thousands of roads within an area!

To improve the performance of download, I indexed ~3,000 cities with populating larger than 100,000 people and
To improve the performance of download, I indexed ~3,000 cities with population larger than 100,000 people and
stored into a [very simple](https://github.com/anvaka/index-large-cities/blob/master/proto/place.proto) protobuf format. The cities are stored into a cache in this github [repository](https://github.com/anvaka/index-large-cities).

The name resolution is done by [nominatim](https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/) - for any query that you type
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If you like this work and want to use it in your projects - you are more than welcome to do so!

Please [let me](https://twitter.com/anvaka) know how it goes. You can also sponsor my projects [here](https://github.com/sponsors/anvaka) - your funds would be dedicated to more awesome and free data visualizations.
Please [let me](https://twitter.com/anvaka) know how it goes. You can also sponsor my projects [here](https://github.com/sponsors/anvaka) - your funds will be dedicated to more awesome and free data visualizations.

## Local development

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## License

The source code is licensed under MIT license
The source code is licensed under MIT license

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