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bhousel

The AllThePlaces.xyz project scrapes the web to collect as many business locations as possible. In the latest weekly build, this data is now available in PMTiles format. Thanks @ian !
github.com/alltheplaces/allthe

This means anyone can view this data as a custom layer in
Rapid Editor now. Try it!:
rapideditor.org/edit#data=http

AllThePlaces is a project that scrapes the web to collect as many business and POI locations as possible. This image shows the AllThePlaces data displayed as a custom data layer in Rapid Editor. The locations appear as cyan points on a map centered around Plainfield, New Jersey.
6 Sep 2023 at 2:12 | Open on mastodon.social
4 comments
Ilya Zverev

@bhousel @ian When surveying another hundred businesses yesterday after lunch, I was thinking, what if I could add some reference layer to Every Door to copy some tag values from...

6 Sep 2023 at 6:45 | Open on en.osm.town
Cj

@zverik @bhousel @ian I still want to work on a server to do the conflation, so ATP can be a normal Rapid source. You should consider adding those sources to Every Door.

6 Sep 2023 at 8:26 | Open on mastodon.social
Cj

@zverik @bhousel @ian for using this data, LWG recently said first party websites are OK as a source for OSM. However the UK community continues to be scared about addresses.

But even if you excluded addresses, there is still great data there like opening hours

6 Sep 2023 at 8:29 | Open on mastodon.social
Ilya Zverev

@Cj @bhousel @ian yeah I'm thinking more of emails, websites, brands, that kind of thing. Really tiresome to type all that out while on the go.

6 Sep 2023 at 8:47 | Open on en.osm.town
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