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 * **Notes**: You can specify which projection you want to use by setting, for example: `Geocoder.configure(:esri => {:outSR => 102100})`.
 
-#### Mapzen/Pelias (`:pelias`)
+#### Mapzen (`:mapzen`)
 
+* **About**: Mapzen is the primary author of pelias and offers Pelias-as-a-service in free and paid versions https://mapzen.com/pelias.
 * **API key**: required
-* **Quota**: 6/sec, up to 30k per day (paid plans via Mapzen)
+* **Quota**: 6/sec, up to 30k per day, paid plan info at https://mapzen.com/documentation/search/api-keys-rate-limits/#rate-limits
 * **Region**: World
 * **SSL support**: yes
 * **Languages**: en
-* **Documentation**: https://mapzen.com/documentation/search/search/ https://github.com/pelias/pelias
+* **Documentation**: https://mapzen.com/documentation/search/search/
 * **Terms of Service**: http://mapzen.com/terms
 * **Limitations**: See terms
 
+#### Pelias (`:pelias`)
+
+* **About**: Pelias is a modular open-source geocoder using ElasticSearch for fast geocoding https://github.com/pelias/pelias.
+* **API key**: required
+* **Quota**: None, self-hosted service.
+* **Region**: World
+* **SSL support**: yes
+* **Languages**: en
+* **Documentation**: https://mapzen.com/documentation/search/search/
+* **Terms of Service**: http://mapzen.com/terms
+* **Limitations**: See terms
+* **Notes**: Configure your self-hosted pelias with the `endpoint` option: `Geocoder.configure(:lookup => :pelias, :api_key => 'your_api_key', :pelias => {:endpoint => 'self.hosted/pelias'})`.  Defaults to `localhost`.
+
 #### Data Science Toolkit (`:dstk`)
 
 Data Science Toolkit provides an API whose reponse format is like Google's but which can be set up as a privately hosted service.