Leaf: Business Locations Dataset: OpenStreetMap — Commercial POIs
OSM records business locations as tagged features with direct geometry.
Spatial Access Path
OSM node/way with commercial tags → direct point/polygon geometry
No joins needed — the mapped feature IS the business location and carries its own geometry.
Relevant Tags
| OSM Tag | Meaning |
|---|---|
shop=* | Retail premises |
office=* | Office locations |
craft=* | Workshop/trade premises |
industrial=* | Industrial sites |
amenity=restaurant|cafe|bar | Food/drink premises |
building=commercial|industrial|retail | Building-level classification |
OSM coverage is volunteer-driven — complete in urban areas, patchy in rural zones. No authoritative provenance.
Temporal Model
Business locations are bitemporal. A business can move. Historical spatial analysis requires virkningFra/virkningTil filtering to reconstruct location at a given point in time. Both Adressering and Produktionsenhed carry their own temporal fields.