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Comparison · Infra & APIs
nominatimlite vs profileCI
A side-by-side editorial comparison of nominatimlite and profileCI — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
nominatimlite vs profileCI: at a glance
What is nominatimlite?
nominatimlite's real work was self-hosting and caching; 0.6.0 is an internal refactor with no API change
nominatimlite is a dependency-light R client for the Nominatim geocoding API, returning results as plain data frames or sf objects. The features that define it landed in 0.4.0 — structured queries, local Nominatim server support, and JSONV2 output — and 0.5.0 added session-scoped caching plus a 1.2-second inter-request delay to stay within the public API's usage policy. 0.6.0 in June 2026 changed no public behaviour.
What is profileCI?
Profile-likelihood confidence intervals for any fitted model, in a feed that publishes out of order.
profileCI computes confidence intervals from the profile log-likelihood for user-supplied fitted models, generalising what confint.glm does for GLMs to any model object exposing a log-likelihood. The releases handle the awkward cases that make profiling fail in practice: infinite limits when the profile never drops below the interval threshold, bounded profiling ranges, and interpolation that breaks down near the limits. Only convex log-likelihoods are supported, so disjoint intervals are out of scope by design.
nominatimlite vs profileCI: editorial side-by-side
nominatimlite
0.0INFRA · APIS
nominatimlite's real work was self-hosting and caching; 0.6.0 is an internal refactor with no API change
◆ Current state
nominatimlite is a dependency-light R client for the Nominatim geocoding API, returning results as plain data frames or sf objects. The features that define it landed in 0.4.0 — structured queries, local Nominatim server support, and JSONV2 output — and 0.5.0 added session-scoped caching plus a 1.2-second inter-request delay to stay within the public API's usage policy. 0.6.0 in June 2026 changed no public behaviour.
◆ Where it's heading
The package has settled. Recent effort goes to being a well-behaved API citizen and to internal consistency: 0.6.0 raised the minimum R to 4.1.0 and refactored URL construction, progress handling, coordinate validation and output preparation with AI assistance, explicitly leaving the public API untouched. That refactor is part of a sweep across the same maintainer's packages in the same weeks.
◆ Prediction
With the API surface stable and rate-limiting handled, future releases most likely track upstream Nominatim endpoint changes, as 0.4.0 did for v4.4.0. Nothing in the entries points to new query capabilities.
profileCI
0.0INFRA · APIS
Profile-likelihood confidence intervals for any fitted model, in a feed that publishes out of order.
◆ Current state
profileCI computes confidence intervals from the profile log-likelihood for user-supplied fitted models, generalising what confint.glm does for GLMs to any model object exposing a log-likelihood. The releases handle the awkward cases that make profiling fail in practice: infinite limits when the profile never drops below the interval threshold, bounded profiling ranges, and interpolation that breaks down near the limits. Only convex log-likelihoods are supported, so disjoint intervals are out of scope by design.
◆ Where it's heading
Work is concentrated on numerical reliability rather than scope: 1.1.1 replaced quadratic with monotonic cubic spline interpolation because the quadratic form could fail, and corrected parameter values stored near the confidence limits. The feed publishes these out of order, with the v1.0.0 entry stamped six months after v1.1.0 and carrying the package's full description rather than a changelog, so release order should be read from the version numbers rather than the dates. The same maintainer's revdbayes has been in pure maintenance across this period, which places profileCI as the more active project.
◆ Prediction
Expect further robustness work at the profiling limits and more logLikFn methods for common model classes, following the nls method added in 1.1.0.
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Recent activity from nominatimlite and profileCI
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 2mo agonominatimliteInternal refactor with no public API change; minimum R now 4.1.0
- 5mo agonominatimliteSession caching and 1.2s throttling for API calls
- 6mo agoprofileCICubic spline interpolation replaces a quadratic that could fail
- 7mo agonominatimliteMinor fixes to reverse geocoding functions
- 7mo agoprofileCICRAN 1.0.0 release of profile-likelihood interval computation
- 1y agoprofileCIInfinite limits and bounded profiling ranges handled
- 1y agonominatimliteDocumentation update
- 2y agonominatimliteFix crash on long OSM IDs in address lookup
- 2y agonominatimliteStructured queries, local server support and JSONV2 output
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between nominatimlite and profileCI?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. nominatimlite and profileCI are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 0.0 vs 0.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is nominatimlite better than profileCI?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. nominatimlite and profileCI are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 0.0 vs 0.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Infra & APIs products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to nominatimlite?
Top nominatimlite alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "nominatimlite alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/nominatimlite for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to profileCI?
Top profileCI alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "profileCI alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/profileci for the full list with editorial commentary on each.