This is foursquare's twofishes geocoder compiled with "world data" for you ready to run inside a Docker image.
This cost me about $100 to run on AWS, but it's free for you!
Warning! This runs docker with --privileged in order to open up the "sysctl -w vm.max_map_count=131060" call required by twofishes
$ sudo docker run --privileged doda/twofishes-geocoder
Congrats you may now geocode to your hearts content:
$ TWOFISHES=$(sudo docker inspect --format '{{ .NetworkSettings.IPAddress }}' $(sudo docker ps -q))
$ curl http://$TWOFISHES:8081/?query=Twatt,Scotland
{
"interpretations": [
{
"feature": {
"attributes": {
"population": 0,
"urls": [
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twatt%2C_Shetland"
]
},
"cc": "GB",
"displayName": "Twatt, Shetland Islands, United Kingdom",
"geometry": {
"center": {
"lat": 60.26667,
"lng": -1.41667
}
},
...
For some reason I couldn't get the JVM to run this well on a machine smaller than 8GB of RAM. Outside Docker 4GB seem to suffice.
Check out the twofishes docs for further usage info.