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First, happy customer of OSM and it’s impressive what they’ve built! That said, I’ve noticed their company website field is sparsely populated. Any recommendat
by tictacttoe 2y ago
First, happy customer of OSM and it’s impressive what they’ve built! That said, I’ve noticed their company website field is sparsely populated.
Any recommendations for acquiring the place website URL through an API or ethically scraping it at scale? I’m specifically wondering about options that wouldn’t involve Google Places.
- lolc 2y agoRead up on what OSM is before you scrape! And maybe Overpass will work for you: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API
- habi 2y agoDo NOT scrape OpenStreetmap, you can download the full dataset for yourself: https://planet.osm.org/ https://planet.osm.org/ and search for what you want in it. If you want regional extracts, you can simply download them from Geofabrik at https://download.geofabrik.de/ https://download.geofabrik.de/