diff --git a/helper/type_mapping.js b/helper/type_mapping.js
index b46751c3..c43a96bb 100644
--- a/helper/type_mapping.js
+++ b/helper/type_mapping.js
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ var LAYERS_BY_SOURCE = {
   'locality','borough', 'neighbourhood', 'venue' ],
  whosonfirst: [ 'continent', 'country', 'dependency', 'macroregion', 'region',
    'locality', 'localadmin', 'macrocounty', 'county', 'macrohood', 'borough',
-   'neighbourhood', 'microhood', 'disputed']
+   'neighbourhood', 'microhood', 'disputed', 'venue']
 };
 
 /*
@@ -60,7 +60,9 @@ var LAYERS_BY_SOURCE = {
  * may have layers that mean the same thing but have a different name
  */
 var LAYER_ALIASES = {
-  'coarse': LAYERS_BY_SOURCE.whosonfirst
+  'coarse': [ 'continent', 'country', 'dependency', 'macroregion', 'region',
+   'locality', 'localadmin', 'macrocounty', 'county', 'macrohood', 'borough',
+   'neighbourhood', 'microhood', 'disputed']
 };
 
 // create a list of all layers by combining each entry from LAYERS_BY_SOURCE
diff --git a/test/unit/sanitiser/_sources_and_layers.js b/test/unit/sanitiser/_sources_and_layers.js
index b943770c..5b8bf3a2 100644
--- a/test/unit/sanitiser/_sources_and_layers.js
+++ b/test/unit/sanitiser/_sources_and_layers.js
@@ -73,6 +73,17 @@ test('valid combination', function(t) {
     t.end();
   });
 
+  test('valid combination: wof venues', function(t) {
+    var raw = {};
+    var clean = { sources: ['whosonfirst'], layers: ['venue'] };
+
+    var messages = sanitize(raw, clean);
+
+    t.equal(messages.errors.length, 0, 'should return no errors');
+    t.equal(messages.warnings.length, 0, 'should return no warnings');
+    t.end();
+  });
+
   test('valid combination because of multiple sources', function(t) {
     var raw = {};
     var clean = { sources: ['openstreetmap', 'openaddresses'], layers: ['venue'] };