This release introduces a major reorganisation of the query structure resulting in better results for mixed-lingual queries (#538), addresses
with house numbers, short terms for search-completion-requests and queries with a location bias (#580). There is a new parameter 'zoom' for the location bias which allows to indicate the extent to which the location bias is applicable.
The Photon database now can save global properties (#582). This is currently used to ensure that the database is compatible with the Photon version running and to remember the languages that were imported into the database. The latter means that the -language parameter is not longer necessary when running Photon in server mode.
There is a new parameter -extra-tags which is applicable at import time (#576). It takes a comma-separated list of tags to import from Nominatim's extratags column. The imported tags are displayed on result but are not searchable.
Further changes:
- output importance and ES score in debug mode (#578)
- improve import speed for POI objects (#547, thanks to @alfmarcua)
- code cleanup and modernisation (#510, #511, #517, #518, #519, #520)
- extend test suite (#515, #526, #587)
- update dependencies (#505, #513, #524, #571)
- improve startup of internal ES server (#506, #521)
- included website converted to static site (#500, #501, #502)
- demo server switched to https://photon.komoot.io (#508)