Reverse geocoding : multiple languages

[ybert]

I would like to use photon to have city and country of POIs.

If I want to save in my DB the result of Photon for the reverse geocoding of my POIs latitude/longitude, I have to make a query by language to have city and country name in each language supported by my app.
If I manage 10 languages in my application I have to make 10 Photon reverse geocoding calls by POI in my application.

It would be great to have multiple languages results if asked in the query.

[lonvia]

We could have an option similar to name_details in Nominatim, which returns all available names. This would also allow to access the currently inaccessible alternative names.

That said, you should be aware that Photon only saves a very limited number of translations. With the current dumps, you can get a maximum of 4 translations. If you are creating your own database, you are likely better off using Nominatim directly for what you are doing.