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[Free + Paid] I am building a location dataset for popular brands

Reddit r/datasets1mo4 min read

Hey everyone, BizLocationDB is my attempt at building a high-quality POI dataset for popular chains and brands. I scraped public store locators to build this. Currently, there are not many brands but I am adding more continuously. There are similar datasets like AllThePlaces and OpenStreetMap , but I’ve found them to be incomplete and messy to work with. For example, AllThePlaces has around 34k Starbucks features, while there are actually 40k+ . Location identifiers are also not standardized. Sometimes, city, zip might be missing, the same coordinate could have multiple cities pointing to it,

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