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Scraper for the open-health-inspector app.
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Scrape smoking data #28

Closed bschoenfeld closed 9 years ago

bschoenfeld commented 9 years ago

The site has info about whether or not a restaurant allows smoking. We should have that in our database.

ttavenner commented 9 years ago

I'm not sure about the validity of this data for two reasons:

  1. It is illegal to smoke inside any public restaurant in Virginia. So in theory 100% should be smoke free, it's actually part of the inspection requirements.
  2. When I look at what places are listed as non-smoking or not it appears to be a default set based on facility type, for instance all full service restaurants are listed as non-smoking but schools and community centers aren't because they aren't open to the public. Hotels may be one or the other depending on whether they are classified as full service or "Hotel Continental Breakfast". This is based on a quick perusal and not statistically sound, but it seems like a good assumption based on my other experiences with the data.
bschoenfeld commented 9 years ago

Yeah, it's too bad the data isn't more specific, but I think it is valid. There are a number of full service restaurants that are listed as allowing smoking. Most of them just because they have outdoor seating where smoking is allowed. There is an example in Portsmouth, Blue Water / Longboards, where there are two restaurants with different entrances, but one kitchen. They allow smoking inside one of the restaurants.

ttavenner commented 9 years ago

Interesting. OK. I can see adding this.

bschoenfeld commented 9 years ago

:thumbsup:

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Closed #28 https://github.com/Code4HR/open-health-inspection-scraper/issues/28 via b7611c0 https://github.com/Code4HR/open-health-inspection-scraper/commit/b7611c0aed773ab9046b423f3132db149ff91154 .

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