List of all restaurants in a city (EU)?

Question

Is there an open database where I can get the list of all restaurants (or bakeries, etc) for a given city ?

Since I'd need theses places so as to be able to put them on a map, like Google maps, i would need the following:

• geo cordinates
• name

Does such a database exists? If not, is it possible to get the request results from Google maps?

Thanks

Answer 1

Here is my obligatory pointer to overpass turbo, a "graphic" way to explore the data quality for certain POIs (points of interest) in the OpenStreetMap database.

This examplary query for amenity=restaurant in Rome (patience: the query takes several seconds to execute) yields (probably incomplete) 543 locations with varying metadata.

How-to: For a given POI, find out its most canonical way of tagging through the page Map Features on the OSM Wiki. Then use the "Wizard" button on overpass turbo to generate the query. Browse the map to a suitable test location and hit execute. The map then can be navigated and the POIs inspected for data quality.

Answer 2

I would take a look at these sources:

• OpenStreetMap (OSM)
  • All about POIs (points of interest) in OSM
  • Question on help.OSM about extracting POIs from a region
• Foursquare
  • POI API (aka Venues) (note: not open data)
• Yelp
  • Search / Business APIs (note: not open data)

Answer 3

For Great Britain, the Food Standards Authority make available an API which has the food hygiene ratings for every place that serves food in the local authorities that operate the scheme.

Whilst this data does include places not normally open to the public (there are some office canteens, schools, etc.) their data is reasonably well classified and free to use - as always, the should read and understand the licence prior to using the data.