[Imports] Import: Vancouver Storefront Inventory

[Clifford Snow]

FYI - I use health department food service inspections to keep track of
restaurants in Skagit County - just south of you. Because they do regular
inspections the data is always up to date. However, the name and address
are often wrong from typos to incomplete addresses.  You might want to see
if there's any open data from the Vancouver Regional District that you
could use.

Clifford

On Sat, Jul 9, 2022 at 1:29 PM Victor Villas <mail at victor.villas> wrote:

> Thanks Paul and Frederik for the feedback.
>
> Indeed, after a few days perusing the Vancouver data I can already see
> that the dataset looks to be very incomplete and contains lots of data that
> is either already mapped or has conflicting information.
>
> My latest guesstimate is that there’s potential for maybe about a hundred
> or so additions/updates to OSM (after scoping it down for coffee/café
> related businesses only). This is a number low enough for me to go through
> these all manually and this should better inform me on how Vancouver’s data
> compare in quality with OSM.
>
> So for now my plan is to not really execute an automated import, but use
> this smaller batch of govt data to guide some days of manual editing.
>
> Thanks again for the guidance,
> Cheers.
>
> > On 8 Jul 2022, at 01:08, Paul Norman via Imports <
> imports at openstreetmap.org> wrote:
> >
> > On 2022-07-07 1:48 p.m., Victor Villas wrote:
> >> Anyone from GVA has any thoughts on this? Any concerns?
> >
> >
> > In the past when I've looked at city data sets, they've had poor data
> coverage for businesses. Maybe the storefront part of this dataset will
> mean this one is better, but it's something to be careful of.
> >
> > If you decide you want to proceed and do a more detailed proposal, I'd
> expect to see a section on quality, on detecting duplicates, and on
> handling updates.
> >
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