This repository is part of the Pelias project. Pelias is an open-source, open-data geocoder built by Mapzen that also powers Mapzen Search. Our official user documentation is here.

pelias-whosonfirst is a tool used for importing Who's On First data from local files into a Pelias ElasticSearch store.

Node 0.12 or higher is required

To install the required node module dependencies and execute the importer, run:

$> npm install
$> npm start

Currently, the supported types are:

• borough
• continent
• country
• county
• dependency
• disputed
• localadmin
• locality
• macrocounty
• macroregion
• neighbourhood
• region

Other types may be included in the future.

This page has a description of all the types supported by Who's on First.

There are multiple ways to download Who's On First data

• The enclosed script download_data.js will download the required bundles and place the data into ./wof_data in the required directory layout. To install the required node module dependencies and run the download script:

npm install
npm run download

Alternatively, the download can be achieved by performing

git clone https://github.com/whosonfirst/whosonfirst-data.git

Once the data is downloaded, the expected layout is:

./wof_data/data/<the nested structure of .geojson files>
./wof_data/meta/<all the .csv meta files>

The sole Pelias configuration option available is imports.whosonfirst.datapath. It should point to the root of where Who's On First data has been downloaded.