Taxonomize stores - Add autosuggest for stores

[teolemon]

What

• Add autosuggest for stores

  Why

• For the mobile app
• To be able to provide availability by store

  Code pointers

• Source code: https://github.com/openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-server/blob/main/cgi/suggest.pl
• Stores taxonomy: https://static.openfoodfacts.org/data/taxonomies/stores.json
• User entered values: https://world.openfoodfacts.org/stores
• Suggest not working for a taxonomized entry: https://world.openfoodfacts.org/cgi/suggest.pl?tagtype=stores&term=franpr&lc=fr
• https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/51189/export-list-of-shops-in-country
• Taxonomy file: https://github.com/openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-server/blob/main/taxonomies/unused/stores.txt
• List of stores on Wikidata: https://w.wiki/6r2V

Part of

• 8865

[CloCkWeRX]

2011 is heavily related.

Openstreetmap has https://nsi.guide and ~904 supermarket https://nsi.guide/index.html?t=brands&k=shop&v=supermarket brands.

Use case 1: Store names

Use case 2: Store brands

[teolemon]

Raphael O is working on that for Open Prices https://github.com/openfoodfacts/open-prices/pull/38 https://prices.openfoodfacts.org/docs It might be interesting to pool the endpoint with Product Opener @raphael0202

[CloCkWeRX]

Looking at the stores.txt taxinomy, how much does it have to stay in that format?

vs say https://raw.githubusercontent.com/osmlab/name-suggestion-index/main/data/brands/shop/supermarket.json

[aleene]

Better to keep the same format as the other taxonomies.

[CloCkWeRX]

Hmm, may have been superceded by https://github.com/openfoodfacts/taxonomy-editor to a degree

[alexgarel]

https://github.com/openfoodfacts/taxonomy-editor can help maintain the taxonomy, but for now we keep a format. But it's a good reason to keep same format.

Per se, the autosuggest could be instead provided by https://github.com/openfoodfacts/search-a-licious and maybe it's already in the @raphael0202 ?

[CloCkWeRX]

Well, for the short term I've generated it in the taxinomy format in git: https://github.com/openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-server/pull/9607

Trivial to adjust the generation script to something else.

[raphael0202]

@alexgarel No it's not included in search-a-licious, it looks like we have an "unofficial" store taxonomy though: https://world.openfoodfacts.org/data/taxonomies/stores.full.json

[CloCkWeRX]

What's the preference re format - /data/taxonomies/stores.full.json or stores.txt.

Happy to enhance either as per https://github.com/openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-server/pull/9607

[raphodn]

Interesting for https://github.com/openfoodfacts/open-prices !

We're slowly getting dozens of stores with OFF products : https://prices.openfoodfacts.org/app/locations

[teolemon]

@raphodn @raphael0202 @CloCkWeRX Please add a 👍 to the issue, so that it gets into popular issues

[CloCkWeRX]

@teolemon - I'd be keen on PR feedback instead. https://github.com/openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-server/pull/9607 - if it's the wrong approach, okay, what's the right one these days?