managarten/services/mana-geocoding
Till JS f1e4a39644 feat(geocoding): provider chain with Photon + Nominatim fallbacks
mana-geocoding now tries Pelias first, falls back to public Photon
(komoot.io) and finally to public Nominatim (OSM) when Pelias is
unhealthy or unreachable. The Places module's address lookup keeps
working even when the Pelias container is stopped — which it currently
is on the Mac mini, freeing 3 GB of RAM until Pelias gets migrated to
the GPU server.

Architecture:

  ProviderChain ─ tries providers in priority order, stops on first
                  success. A clean empty-results answer is definitive
                  (don't burn through public-API budget on a query that
                  legitimately has no match). Only network errors / 5xx
                  / 429 trigger fallthrough.

  HealthCache  ─ per-provider, 30s TTL. A failed health probe or a
                  failed search marks the provider unhealthy and skips
                  it for the rest of the cache window. Lazy refresh —
                  no background pinger.

  RateLimiter  ─ single-token FIFO queue, 1100ms gap by default.
                  Used to enforce Nominatim's 1 req/sec policy. Handles
                  abort during inter-task wait by releasing the busy
                  flag so later tasks aren't blocked.

Provider details:

  pelias    — primary, self-hosted DACH index, full OSM taxonomy in
              `peliasCategories`, no rate limit
  photon    — public komoot endpoint, GeoJSON shape, raw `osm_key:
              osm_value` mapped via lib/osm-category-map.ts. Faster
              than Nominatim, no advertised rate limit but be polite.
  nominatim — public OSM endpoint, strict 1 req/sec via the limiter,
              custom User-Agent required (otherwise 403). Last
              resort — fallback for when Photon is also down.

Response shape changes (additive only — existing callers keep
working):

  - results[].provider: 'pelias' | 'photon' | 'nominatim'
  - results[].peliasCategories: only present when Pelias served the
    request (was already absent on Pelias-API patch failures)
  - top-level provider: <name> + tried: <name[]> on success/error
  - new endpoint: GET /health/providers — per-provider snapshot

Configuration via env (defaults shipped):

  GEOCODING_PROVIDERS=pelias,photon,nominatim   # order matters
  PROVIDER_TIMEOUT_MS=5000
  PROVIDER_HEALTH_CACHE_MS=30000
  PHOTON_API_URL=https://photon.komoot.io
  NOMINATIM_API_URL=https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org
  NOMINATIM_USER_AGENT=mana-geocoding/1.0 (+https://mana.how; ...)
  NOMINATIM_INTERVAL_MS=1100

Testing: 115 tests green (was 42). New coverage:
  - osm-category-map.test.ts (47 cases over food/transit/shopping/
    leisure/work/other priority resolution)
  - rate-limiter.test.ts (FIFO, abort-during-wait, abort-during-sleep)
  - chain.test.ts (failover, empty-results-stops, health-cache,
    snapshot)
  - photon-normalizer.test.ts and nominatim-normalizer.test.ts (lock
    the wire-format mapping for both fallback providers)

Live smoke against public Photon verified — both /search and /reverse
return correctly normalized results with provider="photon" when Pelias
is unreachable.
2026-04-28 15:21:11 +02:00
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pelias fix(geocoding): drop unused Pelias services, raise Bun idleTimeout 2026-04-11 17:41:57 +02:00
scripts test(geocoding): add unit tests + end-to-end smoke test script 2026-04-11 20:21:18 +02:00
src feat(geocoding): provider chain with Photon + Nominatim fallbacks 2026-04-28 15:21:11 +02:00
CLAUDE.md feat(geocoding): provider chain with Photon + Nominatim fallbacks 2026-04-28 15:21:11 +02:00
Dockerfile feat(monitoring): add mana-geocoding + Pelias to prod compose, Prometheus, Grafana, and status.mana.how 2026-04-11 16:11:01 +02:00
package.json test(geocoding): add unit tests + end-to-end smoke test script 2026-04-11 20:21:18 +02:00
tsconfig.json feat(places): add self-hosted geocoding with Pelias (DACH) 2026-04-10 23:02:25 +02:00