Building a custom Placeholder geocoding database

Placeholder is great but there are three things it doesn’t support by default which are pretty important for SFO Museum: The inclusion of airports, historical records and SFO Museum architectural records in the search index. I am happy to say that we are now able to build our own custom Placeholder SQLite databases which address all of these issues.

This is a blog post by aaron cope. It was published on April 28, 2025 and tagged golang, placeholder, geocoding and history.