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Central repository for Qwant Maps resources
https://www.qwant.com/maps/
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Using external POI data #171

Closed Cj-Malone closed 1 year ago

Cj-Malone commented 2 years ago

How much thought have you put into using none OSM point of interest data?

I've been producing a data set of shops, it's "scraped" from there websites (only when they use structured data, and following robots.txt).

In the UK we use it as QA. Anything in OSM but not the list is probably old OSM data. Anything in the list but not in OSM is probably a shop but not mapped.

Copyright wise, it's not compatible with the ODbL, when editing OSM we need an alternative source, but I doubt any of these shops would complain if you used them as an overlay. You could probably even get explicit permission if you tried.

sdrll commented 1 year ago

Hi, thank you for your message. We try to simplify our own database process ad keep believing OpenStreetMap is a good poi data sources. We also use TripAdvisor in UK for some categories (hotel, restaurant, activites).

Cj-Malone commented 1 year ago

My dataset is now deprecated and I work on All The Places which does similar.

I too hope OSM POIs will become the best, I work on them daily. But currently to get the best data you'd have to conflate multiple sources like you are already doing with Tripadvisor.