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 # Pelias API Server
 
-This is the API server for the Pelias project. It's the service that runs to process user HTTP requests and return results as GeoJSON by querying Elasticsearch.
+This is the API server for the Pelias project. It's the service that runs to process user HTTP requests and return results as GeoJSON by querying Elasticsearch and the other Pelias services.
 
 [![NPM](https://nodei.co/npm/pelias-api.png?downloads=true&stars=true)](https://nodei.co/npm/pelias-api)