Data sources and notices

Freshoku surfaces new Toronto restaurants detected from the City of Toronto's open DineSafe data. Licence facts come from the City's Municipal Licensing and Standards data, neighbourhood and Business Improvement Area (BIA) names from the City's boundary files, and contact and social links from open point-of-interest data (Overture, Foursquare). Each fact is tracked with its own source and licence. Where Freshoku links out to Google (Maps, Search), only a place's Google place_id is kept; no Google rating, review, or place detail is stored.

City of Toronto - DineSafe

Detecting genuinely new restaurant openings, from food-premises inspection records.

Licence: Open Government Licence - Toronto

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Toronto.

City of Toronto - Municipal Licensing and Standards, Business Licences and Permits

Licence facts (business type, licence issue dates, licence status) attached to a detected opening.

Licence: Open Government Licence - Toronto

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Toronto.

City of Toronto - neighbourhood and Business Improvement Area (BIA) boundaries

The neighbourhood and BIA district name shown on a listing and used to filter the map.

Licence: Open Government Licence - Toronto

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Toronto.

Overture Maps Foundation - Places

Place facts (name matching, categories, website and social links) used to enrich a detected opening.

Licence: CDLA-Permissive-2.0

Includes data from the Overture Maps Foundation, licensed under CDLA-Permissive-2.0.

Overture's places dataset bundles records contributed by multiple organizations; CDLA-Permissive-2.0 does not require per-contributor attribution, so we credit the dataset as a whole.

Foursquare OS Places

Place facts contributed to Overture places records (Overture bundles Foursquare data), used the same way.

Licence: Apache License, Version 2.0

Includes data from Foursquare OS Places, (c) Foursquare Labs, Inc., licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

OpenStreetMap contributors, via Protomaps

The basemap (roads, land, water, place labels) the map renders.

Licence: Open Database License (ODbL)

Protomaps (c) OpenStreetMap contributors.