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After the 2026-04-11 production deploy, several non-obvious gotchas surfaced that needed documenting: - Forward search: autocomplete→search fallback explained, so future-me knows why the handler hits two Pelias endpoints for address-style queries. - Pelias infra: corrected object counts (13.4M actual, not 22M), noted the libpostal RAM surprise (~1.9 GB, much larger than Pelias docs suggest), and added real per-container RAM numbers from production. - pelias.json: document that we dropped placeholder/pip/interpolation (not just how to run them) and why the cleaner degradation matters. - Wrapper gotchas section: Bun idleTimeout, Colima bind-mount cache staleness, and the host.docker.internal-from-blackbox workaround. - /health/pelias endpoint is now listed in the API table since it's the integration point with blackbox monitoring. - Testing section added — explicitly "no automated tests yet", with a curl-based manual smoke test set a human can run after changes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# mana-geocoding
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Self-hosted geocoding service. Wraps a local Pelias instance (DACH region) with caching and automatic OSM → PlaceCategory mapping. All geocoding queries stay within our infrastructure — no user location data leaves the network.
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## Tech Stack
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| Layer | Technology |
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|-------|------------|
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| **Runtime** | Bun |
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| **Framework** | Hono |
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| **Geocoding** | Pelias (self-hosted, Elasticsearch-backed) |
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| **Data** | OpenStreetMap DACH extract (DE/AT/CH) |
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| **Caching** | In-memory LRU (5000 entries, 24h TTL) |
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## Port: 3018
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## Quick Start
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```bash
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# 1. Start Pelias stack (first time: run setup.sh for data import)
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cd services/mana-geocoding/pelias
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docker compose up -d
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# First time only:
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chmod +x setup.sh && ./setup.sh
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# 2. Start the Hono wrapper
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cd services/mana-geocoding
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bun run dev
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```
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## API Endpoints
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All endpoints are public (no auth required) — the service is internal-only, not exposed to the internet.
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| Method | Path | Description |
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|--------|------|-------------|
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| GET | `/api/v1/geocode/search?q=...` | Forward geocoding / autocomplete |
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| GET | `/api/v1/geocode/reverse?lat=...&lon=...` | Reverse geocoding |
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| GET | `/api/v1/geocode/stats` | Cache statistics |
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| GET | `/health` | Wrapper health |
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| GET | `/health/pelias` | Upstream Pelias health (used by blackbox monitoring) |
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### Forward-search strategy
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The wrapper queries Pelias `/autocomplete` first (fast, fuzzy, optimised for
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venue names like "Konzil Restaurant"). If that returns zero features, it
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falls back to `/search`, which covers the address layer that autocomplete
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deliberately excludes as a performance optimisation.
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This gives the best of both worlds: quick venue matches for free-text
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queries AND reliable results for street-style queries like "Marktstätte
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Konstanz". See `src/routes/geocode.ts` — the fallback is baked into the
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forward handler.
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### Search params
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| Param | Required | Description |
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|-------|----------|-------------|
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| `q` | yes | Search query (min 2 chars) |
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| `limit` | no | Max results (default 5, max 20) |
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| `lang` | no | Language (default `de`) |
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| `focus.lat` | no | Bias results towards this latitude |
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| `focus.lon` | no | Bias results towards this longitude |
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### Reverse params
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| Param | Required | Description |
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|-------|----------|-------------|
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| `lat` | yes | Latitude |
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| `lon` | yes | Longitude |
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| `lang` | no | Language (default `de`) |
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### Response format
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```json
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{
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"results": [
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{
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"label": "Münster Café, Münsterplatz 3, 78462 Konstanz",
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"name": "Münster Café",
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"latitude": 47.663,
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"longitude": 9.175,
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"address": {
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"street": "Münsterplatz",
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"houseNumber": "3",
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"postalCode": "78462",
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"city": "Konstanz",
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"country": "Germany"
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},
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"category": "food",
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"peliasCategories": ["food", "retail", "nightlife"],
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"confidence": 0.95
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}
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]
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}
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```
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## Category Mapping
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Pelias' OSM importer tags each venue with its own taxonomy (`food`, `retail`,
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`transport`, `health`, `education`, …). We collapse those into the 7
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PlaceCategories used by the Places module, using a **priority-ordered list**
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so the most specific signal wins:
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| PlaceCategory | Wins if Pelias categories contain |
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|---------------|-----------------------------------|
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| `food` | `food` (beats retail/nightlife — a restaurant is food) |
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| `transit` | `transport`, `transport:public`, `transport:air`, `transport:bus`, `transport:taxi`, `transport:sea` |
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| `shopping` | `retail` (when no `food` present) |
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| `leisure` | `entertainment`, `nightlife`, `recreation` |
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| `work` | `education`, `professional`, `government`, `finance` |
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| `other` | `health`, `religion`, everything else |
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| `home` | (not auto-detected — set manually by the user) |
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**Example mappings verified on the DACH index:**
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| OSM venue | Pelias categories | → PlaceCategory |
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|-----------|-------------------|-----------------|
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| Konzil Konstanz Restaurant | `[food, retail, nightlife]` | `food` |
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| Bahnhof Konstanz | `[transport, transport:station]` | `transit` |
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| Physiotherapie-Schule | `[education]` | `work` |
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| MX-Park (Rennstrecke) | `[recreation]` | `leisure` |
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The priority list lives in `src/lib/category-map.ts` — update it if you want
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a Pelias category to map somewhere else.
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### Critical: the Pelias API patch
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By default, Pelias **hides** the `category` field from API responses unless
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the caller explicitly passes `?categories=...` — a quirk intended for keyword
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filtering that also strips category metadata from normal address queries. We
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work around this by mounting a **patched copy** of
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`helper/geojsonify_place_details.js` over the upstream one in the `pelias-api`
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container (`pelias/geojsonify_place_details.js`). The patch changes
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`condition: checkCategoryParam` → `condition: () => true` so the category
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array always flows through to the wrapper.
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If you bump the `pelias/api` image, regenerate the patched file:
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```bash
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cd services/mana-geocoding/pelias
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docker run --rm pelias/api:latest cat /code/pelias/api/helper/geojsonify_place_details.js \
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| sed 's|condition: checkCategoryParam|condition: () => true|' \
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> geojsonify_place_details.js
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docker compose up -d --force-recreate api
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```
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## Architecture
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```
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Client (Places module)
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→ mana-geocoding (Hono, port 3018)
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→ LRU cache check
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→ Pelias API (port 4000) [patched — see above]
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→ Elasticsearch (port 9200)
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```
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## Configuration
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```env
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PORT=3018
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PELIAS_API_URL=http://localhost:4000/v1
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CORS_ORIGINS=http://localhost:5173,https://mana.how
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CACHE_MAX_ENTRIES=5000
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CACHE_TTL_MS=86400000
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```
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## Pelias Infrastructure
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The Pelias stack runs as a separate docker-compose in `pelias/`:
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- **elasticsearch** — Index storage (Docker volume, ~5GB for DACH after
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indexing 13.4M OSM objects — 10M addresses + 3.3M venues)
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- **api** — HTTP API (port 4000), patched for category passthrough
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- **libpostal** — Address parsing (internal only, not exposed on host port
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because 4400 collides with mana-infra-landings on the Mac Mini)
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- **Import containers** — Run once for initial data load, then stopped
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**Production RAM usage** (measured on the Mac Mini after the 2026-04-11 deploy):
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| Container | RAM |
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| pelias-elasticsearch | ~1.2 GB |
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| pelias-libpostal | ~1.9 GB (address parser model) |
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| pelias-api | ~100 MB |
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| mana-geocoding (wrapper) | ~20–60 MB |
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Total: **~3.2 GB** — larger than the initial ~1.5 GB estimate because
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libpostal loads its full address parser into memory up front.
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### Initial import (one-time)
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The DACH PBF extract is ~5GB and takes 30-45 minutes to index. See
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`pelias/setup.sh` for the full pipeline. Key steps, in order:
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1. `docker compose up -d` — bring up ES, api, libpostal
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2. `docker exec pelias-elasticsearch elasticsearch-plugin install analysis-icu`
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then restart — the official ES image doesn't ship `analysis-icu` which
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Pelias' schema mapping requires
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3. `docker compose --profile import run --rm schema ./bin/create_index`
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4. `docker compose --profile import run --rm openstreetmap ./bin/download`
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(downloads `dach-latest.osm.pbf` from Geofabrik, ~5GB)
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5. **Rename** `dach-latest.osm.pbf` → `planet-latest.osm.pbf` inside the
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pelias-data volume (Pelias' importer expects that filename). The
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`pelias.json` config references it as `planet-latest.osm.pbf` too.
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6. `docker compose --profile import run --rm openstreetmap ./bin/start`
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(22M objects, ~30 min on an M2 Mac mini)
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### pelias.json gotchas
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A few non-obvious settings required for a self-hosted DACH deployment:
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- **`adminLookup.enabled: false`** — Pelias tries to resolve country/region
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hierarchies via "Who's On First" data by default. We don't import WOF,
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so this must be disabled or import crashes with `unable to locate sqlite
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folder`.
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- **`leveldbpath: "/data/leveldb"`** — not `/tmp/leveldb`; the container
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user (1001) needs write access and `/tmp` is not mounted.
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- **`api.services.libpostal: { url: "..." }`** — must be an object, not a
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string. The API's Joi schema rejects the string form.
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- **Only declare services you actually run.** We used to list `placeholder`,
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`pip`, and `interpolation` in `api.services` but never ran the containers;
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Pelias logged `ENOTFOUND` errors on every query. Dropping the unused
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entries makes Pelias degrade cleanly to libpostal-only parsing (warns
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`service disabled` once at startup, then silent).
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- **No `defaultParameters.boundary.country`** — Pelias only accepts a
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single country value for `boundary.country`. Since our index only
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contains DACH data anyway, we drop the filter entirely.
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- **`features: { filename: "planet-latest.osm.pbf" }`** — required because
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Geofabrik downloads come named `dach-latest.osm.pbf`, but Pelias'
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openstreetmap importer looks for `planet-latest.osm.pbf` by default.
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### Wrapper gotchas
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- **`idleTimeout: 60`** on `Bun.serve` — the default 10 s cuts off cold
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queries that hit Elasticsearch and libpostal in sequence. 60 s is
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generous for the worst case while still catching actually-stuck
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connections.
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- **Colima bind-mount cache.** The mac-mini bind-mounts this repo's files
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into several monitoring containers. Colima on macOS sometimes serves a
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stale view of a bind-mounted file even after the file on disk changes.
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After editing `scripts/generate-status-page.sh` (also bind-mounted into
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`mana-status-gen`), restart the consuming container so it sees the
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fresh content: `docker restart mana-status-gen`.
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- **`host.docker.internal` doesn't resolve from blackbox-exporter** on
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Colima, so the external monitoring can't probe pelias-api or
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elasticsearch directly. Instead, the wrapper exposes `/health/pelias`
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which proxies a request to Pelias; Prometheus probes that internal
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endpoint inside the docker network. See `prometheus.yml` job
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`blackbox-internal`.
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## Testing
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There is **no automated test suite yet**. The service was validated
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end-to-end during the 2026-04-11 deploy with a manual smoke-test set:
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```bash
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# From the mac-mini (or any container in the mana docker network):
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curl -s "http://localhost:3018/api/v1/geocode/search?q=Konzil+Konstanz&limit=1"
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curl -s "http://localhost:3018/api/v1/geocode/search?q=Stuttgart+Hauptbahnhof&limit=1"
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curl -sG "http://localhost:3018/api/v1/geocode/search" \
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--data-urlencode "q=Marktstätte Konstanz" --data-urlencode "limit=1"
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curl -s "http://localhost:3018/api/v1/geocode/reverse?lat=48.137&lon=11.575"
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curl -s "http://localhost:3018/health/pelias"
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```
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Expected shape per result: `{name, latitude, longitude, address, category,
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peliasCategories, confidence}`. At least the major Konstanz/München/Berlin
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venues should resolve with sensible categories (restaurant → `food`,
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station → `transit`, school → `work`, park → `leisure`).
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If you add logic here, at least add unit tests around `lib/category-map.ts`
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(the Pelias→PlaceCategory priority list is the most subtle part) and a
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smoke test that runs the above curls against a local stack.
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## Code Layout
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```
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src/
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├── index.ts # Bootstrap
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├── app.ts # Hono app factory
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├── config.ts # Environment config
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├── routes/
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│ ├── geocode.ts # Forward + reverse endpoints with caching
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│ └── health.ts
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└── lib/
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├── cache.ts # LRU cache with TTL
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└── category-map.ts # OSM → PlaceCategory mapping
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pelias/
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├── docker-compose.yml # Pelias stack
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├── pelias.json # Pelias config (DACH region)
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└── setup.sh # Initial data import script
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```
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