[Imports] Import: Vancouver Storefront Inventory

[Victor Villas]

Hi,

I’d like to gather interest and community feedback on importing Vancouver’s Storefront Inventory data:
https://opendata.vancouver.ca/explore/dataset/storefronts-inventory/table/

This is going to take a while because I want to be very thorough, specially since so many stores unfortunately went under during the data gathering period (2020-2022). I intent to tackle this by small segments, starting with Cafés only. If it works well, I might expand on other subgroups and hopefully I get get at least the Food & Beverages segment covered - though I doubt I’d ever finish importing the whole dataset by myself.

For now, I’m working on reconciling OSM and the inventory data to see how much they overlap and how agreeable are the geo points, but I’m not finished with that yet. At least they are somewhat similar in overall size, both in the 500s of seemingly coffee related businesses.

Anyone from GVA has any thoughts on this? Any concerns?

You can read more about my thoughts and progress on my OSM diary:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/villasv/diary

Cheers,
Victor