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Re:Google Maps is filled with false business addresses prete... by jdm2212 on Friday June 21, 2019 @11:21AM (#20243284)
Are the records all of the following: 1) structured 2) available via web API 3) consistent across jurisdictions 4) reasonably up to date

I'm guessing they're not. Google has had hundreds of really smart engineers with an effectively unlimited infrastructure budget working on Maps spam for a decade. If it were easy to solve once and for all, they would have.

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Re:Google Maps is filled with false business addresses prete... by specialist on Friday June 21, 2019 @12:19PM (#20243875)
There are at least a dozen companies that aggregate and resell that data. I'm familiar with LexisNexus (nee Seisent). I'm certain Google could do it too.
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