Global stores taxonomy
See Global taxonomies for instructions.
Introduction
The stores taxonomy contains a list of locations where products (food products, beauty products, etc.) can be obtained.
Store entries
An entry in the taxonomy describes a single location. The fields used follow the data structure used by OFF Prices and describes a single location:
- id - a unique identifier (as defined by OFF Prices)
- osm_id - the corresponding node(only?) in OpenStreetMap
- name - a long name
- postcode - the postcode
- city - the city
- country - the country tag
- lat - the latitude
- lon - the longitude
Open Street Map integration
Several of the fields are pulled from Open Street Map (name, postcode, city, country, lat, lon). These need to be regularly updated, so that OSM is followed. Any deleted location should be kept.
Maintenance
The stores taxonomy needs to be regularly updated from the data entered through OFF Prices. This means any changed values and any added entries/
Note
- We need to associate stores with brands that are sold in thoses stores (Auchan for Auchan…)
- We should try to add Wikidata relations (and thus OSM ones) whenever possible
Moved to GitHub: https://github.com/openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-server/blob/master/taxonomies/stores.txt