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Really surprising that Inverness and Skye have only 16 pubs considering how much tourism the area has. I felt like it wasn't lacking for pubs but maybe I saw al

by jrflo 2mo ago

Really surprising that Inverness and Skye have only 16 pubs considering how much tourism the area has. I felt like it wasn't lacking for pubs but maybe I saw all 16...

wetbaby 2mo ago
A good third of the pubs are missing in my town tbh and they're definitely still open.
- CiaranMcNulty 2mo ago
  It looks like the data is from OpenStreetMap so maybe you could add them if they’re missing there?
  - mojo74 2mo ago
    I would argue it's your civic duty :)
  - n4r9 2mo ago
    If you click the question mark it has: > Pub data is sourced from the Food Hygiene Rating Service (FHRS) via GetTheData Open Pubs https://www.getthedata.com/open-pubs https://www.getthedata.com/open-pubs
    - MrDOS 2mo ago
      Ah, interesting. Searching the dataset for my local area, this seems to include some restaurants, but omits hotels entirely. That's skewing the numbers downward tremendously.
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    - 2b3a51 2mo ago
      Which explains why Spearmint Rhino is listed in Birmingham (hint: you might get a surprise popping in that establishment for a quick pint). So nice interface and all but some data curation will be needed - perhaps on a crowd sourced basis? Click and add comment &c.
      - flir 2mo ago
        I thought about doing something similar pre-Covid. There are commercial datasets that are more complete (Local Data Company was the one I targeted when I was researching), but... well... £000's a quarter. The project would have had to cover its costs, so the idea went to the great backlog in the sky.
- BoxOfRain 2mo ago
  Yeah I'm dogsitting at my childhood home right now and it's missing the rural pubs on the dog route.
pelagicAustral 2mo ago
I was in Inverness a few weeks ago, seems like the tourist season is on, and it was fairly hard to find a pub other than downtown. The other interesting thing is that a lot of them don't seem to not go by the advertised opening times, which later on made total sense based on what an old man told me about the Highlands having their own time.
lostlogin 2mo ago
There were about as many golf courses as pubs when I went through there - but that was a while back.

by jrflo 2mo ago

Really surprising that Inverness and Skye have only 16 pubs considering how much tourism the area has. I felt like it wasn't lacking for pubs but maybe I saw all 16...

wetbaby 2mo ago

A good third of the pubs are missing in my town tbh and they're definitely still open.

CiaranMcNulty 2mo ago
It looks like the data is from OpenStreetMap so maybe you could add them if they’re missing there?
- mojo74 2mo ago
  I would argue it's your civic duty :)
- n4r9 2mo ago
  If you click the question mark it has: > Pub data is sourced from the Food Hygiene Rating Service (FHRS) via GetTheData Open Pubs https://www.getthedata.com/open-pubs https://www.getthedata.com/open-pubs
  - MrDOS 2mo ago
    Ah, interesting. Searching the dataset for my local area, this seems to include some restaurants, but omits hotels entirely. That's skewing the numbers downward tremendously.
    - deleted 2mo ago
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  - 2b3a51 2mo ago
    Which explains why Spearmint Rhino is listed in Birmingham (hint: you might get a surprise popping in that establishment for a quick pint). So nice interface and all but some data curation will be needed - perhaps on a crowd sourced basis? Click and add comment &c.
    - flir 2mo ago
      I thought about doing something similar pre-Covid. There are commercial datasets that are more complete (Local Data Company was the one I targeted when I was researching), but... well... £000's a quarter. The project would have had to cover its costs, so the idea went to the great backlog in the sky.
BoxOfRain 2mo ago
Yeah I'm dogsitting at my childhood home right now and it's missing the rural pubs on the dog route.

pelagicAustral 2mo ago

I was in Inverness a few weeks ago, seems like the tourist season is on, and it was fairly hard to find a pub other than downtown. The other interesting thing is that a lot of them don't seem to not go by the advertised opening times, which later on made total sense based on what an old man told me about the Highlands having their own time.

lostlogin 2mo ago

There were about as many golf courses as pubs when I went through there - but that was a while back.