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danielgraf@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

If you use Photon and only have your main country available, it will fallback to the configured external Geo-coding-services since Photon will not return a result then. So the order of execution is:

first try Photon
if it does not return anything, try to call one or all of the available Geo coding services.

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Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Is that true even if you’re not in hybrid mode?

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- danielgraf@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  Maybe the wording is confusing in the Readme. Reitti will try to fetch the data from a configured photon instance first, if this does not return anything and you have Geocoding services configured, it will try them. There is actually no switch for hybrid mode or only local. It depends on what is configured.
  
  Photon Only: you have only photon configured and under Settings > Gecoding you deleted or disable every available service. Hybrid Mode: Photon is configured and under Settings > Geocoding there are Services available. That es is the one I use. Having Photon with the data for Germany and all the rest is handled by Geoapify.com. External Only: You dropped Photon from the docker-compose file and only rely on services under Settings > Geocoding
  
  If you do not configure anything, then Reitti will skip Geocoding and only display Unknown Place.
  
  I will update the Readme to make that clear.
  
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  - Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    If you do not configure anything, then Reitti will skip Geocoding and only display Unknown Place.
    
    Ah ok thanks. This is what I was wondering.
    
    Two follow-ups:
    
    Can you specify multiple COUNTRY_CODEs? (and if so, is the method
    
    environment: - COUNTRY_CODE=country_one - COUNTRY_CODE=country_two
    
    or
    
    environment: - COUNTRY_CODE=[country_one, country_two]
    
    or something else?)
    
    And is this something that can seemlessly be retroactively changed? For example, if I set COUNTRY_CODE=au and it works fine for Australia, but then I move to NZ, can I add (assuming the answer to my first question is yes) or change to COUNTRY_CODE=nz and have all the NZ locations work on the already-recorded data, even if I made that change to my configuration after I had been in NZ for a few months?
    
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    danielgraf@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Good question, afaik you can not enter multiple countries to Photon. I was hoping it would be possible but everything i saw was it is either on country or the whole world. But maybe you can have a look here: github.com/komoot/photon That is the service we are using.
    
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