[freyfogle]

I'm sorry but not surprised to read that you had a bad experience with positionstack. They have been unreliable for years, and worse yet unresponsive about it.

If you still need geocoding very happy to have a conversation, or you can just check out our site: https://opencagedata.com

We use only open data, you can store it forever (even if no longer a customer) and use it for whatever you like.

[omnibrain]

For development (and experimenting & learning) I run my own Nominatim instance.

My customers who use the geocoding and mapping feature in production are very into data privacy and sovereignity, so they had Geofabrik build them their own infrastructure on premises.

I think back in the day, when I ranted about Positionstack on Twitter, we may have chatted for a bit.