Great point! As developers, we&#x27;ve all been there. Mapzen&#x27;s mission is to create services that outlive the brand&#x2F;company. Everything we do is open source and easy to stand up on your own.<p>Pelias, the project powering our Search service is written entirely in node.js + Elasticsearch, to make it accessible to the largest number of developers, because JavaScript.<p>We also host an instance of Pelias to make the service accessible for those that can&#x27;t&#x2F;won&#x27;t run their own.<p>More details [here](<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mapzen.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;search" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mapzen.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;search</a>).