Default `whosonfirst.sqlite` to true
orangejulius opened this issue · 3 comments
We have been testing the SQLite download option introduced in #417 for some time, and it appears to be pretty solid.
As far as I know, the SQLite databases are the preferred distribution method for WOF data going forward.
What is left before we consider setting whosonfirst.sqlite to true by default?
There's at least one blocker for this: the wof-admin-lookup tests currently fail when sqlite is set to true: pelias/wof-admin-lookup#262
Now that pelias/wof-admin-lookup#262 is fixed, I think we can set SQLite by default 😄.
We've done lots of testing with SQLite DBs recently. They are definitely the way of the future and already work well today.
Two PRs left to merge before we can do this:
- pelias/placeholder#157 (and pelias/placeholder#169 which improves it) to add SQLite support to Placeholder
- #477 to avoid downloading both the full planet and country DBs from dist.whosonfirst.org
Should happen soon!