Pelias can only be as good as the data available to it. And so far, we've done a lot to make the best use of the best collaborative open data projects we can find. But there are plenty of other sources of data that have the potential to open geocoding up to parts of the world where we don't yet offer it.

We suspect you probably know some of the best sources already that would make Pelias/Mapzen Search substantially better. Please, leave us comment below with a particular target dataset that you'd like to see Pelias/Mapzen Search rely upon.

We'd love to see new sources of:

• Address data (so we can provide it to OpenAddresses)
• Road network data for interpolation
• Postcodes
• Venues and named points of interest

This is why we think open will win: when people can share what we know, knowledge grows faster and we can build so much more.