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72M Points of Interest

https://tech.marksblogg.com/overture-places-pois.html
36•marklit•5d ago

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realitylabs•3h ago
Thank you! This was a good intro to using duckdb for me with easily relatable content and cool maps.
RyanShook•2h ago
This was great, thank you for sharing.

The dataset claims there are significantly more Citibank locations than McDonalds worldwide which I don’t think can be correct?

It also lists over 56,000 Wildberries worldwide but a quick Google search shows they are a large online retailer. I wonder what is going on with the brand POIs…

marklit•2h ago
Glad you enjoyed it.

There should be enough SQL in the blog to re-purpose extracting out the Wildberries locations and seeing where they land on top of. I've never heard of this firm before you mentioned it.

From Google:

> Citibank operates over 2,300 ATMs within more than 600 U.S. branches, with a total network of over 65,000 fee-free ATMs

So the 57,163 Citibank locations are probably a combination of their branches and ATMs.

Update: I reviewed Alltheplaces a while back, they scrape company websites for store locations. They reported 68,227 locations for Wildberries. ATP is one of the sources Overture use but they seem to use 1.55M of the records from their 19M-record dataset. https://tech.marksblogg.com/alltheplaces.html

yorwba•1h ago
A quick overpass-turbo search for "brand:wikidata=Q24933714 in Moscow" https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/2kaO (Q24933714 being Wildberries https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24933714 ) reveals that almost all locations are tagged shop=outpost https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:shop%3Doutpost which identifies them as pick-up locations for goods ordered online. I assume the dataset in the post has mostly the same locations.
marcinignac•1h ago
I really enjoy the exploration but I really wonder why people still use Mercator for data viz? Eg Greenland is not the size of Africa...
marklit•1h ago
I can't get the vector basemap to render in QGIS properly with any other projection. I love using EPSG:3301 for Europe, etc.. but loads of strange things happen. Even 4326 is an issue.

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