[Talk-us] Walgreens stores dataset

[Cj Malone]

Hello everyone,

First time on Talk US, but I'd like to share some data, and see if it
interests anybody.

I've been pulling data from some chain websites in the UK and last week
I did it for Walgreens.

Some asterisks first:
1 - This NOT licenced for OSM, database rights, "All rights reserved"
or something else, be safe, this isn't a source. (If somebody does get
permission to use Walgreens website as a source, document it on the
wiki and have at it!)

2 - This is this is first party data, that doesn't mean it's correct.
I've not looked at this in any detail, but other similar datasets I
have looked at are frequently wrong.

In the UK we are using this data for QA, checking how many stores still
need to be mapped [2], we check against OSM data with the correct
brand:wikidata. Website and postcodes are used to match stores that
have a significant location difference. (Like I said first party data
can be bad)

We then surface the unexpected stores (Stores in OSM, but not in this
dataset) and the missing stores (Stores not in OSM, but in this
dataset) in another tool [3] that is used to help direct local mappers,
but it is also used to highlight areas that are under mapped in OSM.

Anyway, if this interests anybody let me know. I have some (kinda)
strict rules on which websites I do this for, but I'm happy to checkout
other chains if people want.

Cj

[1] https://keepawayfromfire.co.uk/osm/Walgreens.geojson
[2] https://osm.mathmos.net/chains/
[3] https://osm.mathmos.net/survey/