Creating a database of local locations / enterprises

Question

Does anyone have any experience or suggestions on creating a database of local locations / businesses that will be used in a web application?

Would scraping Yelp / Facebook Places / Foursquare or any similar sites with locations in the best way?

Answer 1

There is no ideal data source, but the following resources may provide you with some ideas.

Copyright protected data sources:

• https://www.yelp.com/developers/documentation - Yelp API
• Facebook API
• Google Places API - https://developers.google.com/places/webservice/intro
• API Foursquare - http://www.programmableweb.com/api/foursquare

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• https://www.openstreetmap.org/ - , , , , , .. .
• http://www.freebase.com/ - , API.