Making the SFO Museum geocoder less Who’s On First specific, reusable JavaScript components and experimental vector search

The hope is that this change will make it easier to use the geocoder tool for other data sources without the need to maintain a separate lookup tables of string-to-numeric identifiers. We like using Who’s On First as a source for geocoding places but there are lots of available data sources out there and these changes were made with the goal of accommodating them.

This is a blog post by aaron cope. It was published on September 09, 2026 and tagged golang, geo, geocoding and javascript.