How to know if where you live is “up and coming”: fried chicken vs. coffee shops

Re:How to know if where you live is “up and coming”: fried c... by aembleton on Thursday October 15, 2015 @04:50AM (#10392060)

Where did you get the data on coffee shops and chicken shops from?

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Re:How to know if where you live is “up and coming”: fried c... by aembleton on Thursday October 15, 2015 @04:59AM (#10392088)

I've just realised that this wasn't a `Show HN` so the submitter and the author may well be different people. I've left a comment on the medium article.

The reason I ask is that I recently purchased a house in Manchester and as part of that collected as much data as possible on things like crime stats, walking time to nearest reailway station, cycling time to work, etc. I didn't get data on coffee or chicken shops. I did consider it, and would have pulled it from OSM but that data is very incomplete with regards to this sort of data.

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Re:How to know if where you live is “up and coming”: fried c... by sfloy on Friday October 16, 2015 @04:05AM (#10398045)

Hi - yep, data came from Google Maps API, as linked below

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Re:How to know if where you live is “up and coming”: fried c... by rezistik on Thursday October 15, 2015 @05:38AM (#10392183)

Couldn't you use like, Google Maps?

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Re:How to know if where you live is “up and coming”: fried c... by aembleton on Thursday October 15, 2015 @06:06AM (#10392267)

I don't know. Is there a way in the API of requesting all coffee shops?

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Re:How to know if where you live is “up and coming”: fried c... by dagw on Thursday October 15, 2015 @06:30AM (#10392338)

yup. https://developers.google.com/places/web-service/

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