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It might sound funny, but making slippy maps in Web Mercator is emphatically not what people call GIS - GIS being:

* The technical part of the academic Geography field

* Data collection and mapping work done at agencies like the USGS and municipal governments

* Work done with ESRI software (see https://joemorrison.medium.com/esri-cant-be-stopped-3b063f3d...)

Yes, Pelias is a mature project backed by a great team at https://geocode.earth - definitely one of the best options if you need an autocompleting geocoder based on OSM+other data like http://whosonfirst.org

About OSM data extracts, I also run an extracts service at http://protomaps.com/extracts that provides on-demand data updated once a minute.



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