[OSM-dev] places of business listings

[Bryan Housel]

I was looking for something similar a while ago for a different project and found nothing free.  There are plenty of paid datasets.

I do think there should be some kind of open retailer database that lists locations and operating hours of places.  It wouldn’t be too difficult to index most major retailer sites to get this information.   It really should exist separate from openstreetmap.

It’s definitely something I’d be interested in contributing to.


On Jun 18, 2014, at 4:10 PM, Sachin Dole <sdole at genvega.com> wrote:

> Actually, the intent of my original question was a little different. I like the OSM data as it is and with tools such as the ones suggested here, its fairly easy to add new data over periods of time, however, I was curious, whether there is any open source project or movement to do something like localeze (http://www.neustarlocaleze.biz/directory/index.aspx) or dnb.com or yext.com or publisher.yp.com. 
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> For example, for a fee and restricted license, yp.com can give me phone numbers, websites, hours of operation, coupons for a local business. How do we make that available on OSM under odbl?
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> Thanks
> Sachin
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> On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Sachin Dole <sdole at genvega.com> wrote:
> Thank you! OnOsm.org looks promising. I have the same legality question about how Joi has suggested his links. However, I was able to click around on that website and was able to create a single poi in osm based on my personal knowledge. Followed below is the changeset info that Joi's url gave me, further, here is the url of the POI that I just added : http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2922366101. I think this is pretty cool. Now, I just wonder who owns that site and if they have any licensing requirements for what I would do on their site.
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> Changeset opened: 23012165
> POI created: 2922366101
> Changeset closed
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> 
> Thanks ahain!
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> On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Serge Wroclawski <emacsen at gmail.com> wrote:
> onosm.org run by Ian Dees is a good one.
> 
> It creates notes, which isn't perfect, but it's the best thing we have
> at the moment IMHO.
> 
> - Serge
> 
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Sachin Dole <sdole at genvega.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Is there any ongoing project or effort to add places of business to OSM? I
> > am looking for free/open source data such as the type provided by dnb or
> > yellow pages api. I wont be surprised if there is none, but was wondering if
> > there is any work on this.
> >
> > Thank you!
> > Sachin Dole
> > www.trelair.com - this is still a work in progress startup
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