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A POI Database in One Line
Simon Willison's Weblog simonwillison.net
Overture maps offer an extraordinarily useful freely licensed databases of POI (point of interest) listings, principally derived from partners such as Facebook and including restaurants, shops, museums and other locations from all around the world.
Their new "overturemaps" Python CLI utility makes it easy to quickly pull subsets of their data... but requires you to provide a bounding box to do so.
Drew Breunig came up with this delightful recipe for fetching data using …
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