simonpoole left a comment (openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website#6713)

> To elaborate, iD uses 
> [country-coder](https://github.com/rapideditor/country-coder/), which stores 
> simplified country boundaries in a 
> [which-polygon](https://github.com/mapbox/which-polygon/) spatial index, 
> which in turn is based on [RBush](https://github.com/mourner/rbush/), which 
> is an R-tree implementation, like PostGIS.

I wasn't implying that iD implementation was the best in class (it's the 
worst), just that it isn't a novel idea even for OSM central infrastructure.

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