AnythingPOI - Canada POI Dataset v0.1

Abstract

A unified, open point-of-interest (POI) dataset for Canada containing 5,565,256 POIs produced by the AnythingPOI pipeline, which fuses OpenStreetMap and Overture Maps Foundation data using H3-indexed spatial conflation, Jaro-Winkler name matching, and multi-signal confidence scoring. Source breakdown: OSM-only: 451,872 (8.1%) — from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0) Overture-only: 5,037,979 (90.5%) — from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0) Conflated (both sources matched): 75,405 (1.4%) Top categories: Professional & Business, Retail, Food & Beverage, Healthcare, Services. Full taxonomy: 18 Tier-1 categories, 196 Tier-2 subcategories. Contents: GeoParquet files (one per Tier-1 category), PMTiles v3 for interactive map visualisation, and coverage statistics CSVs. Each POI carries a confidence_score (0.01–0.99) reflecting the strength of the conflation evidence across spatial, name, website, phone, postcode, and Wikidata signals. Attribution: This dataset contains information from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0 — openstreetmap.org/copyright) and Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0 — overturemaps.org). License: Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. Any public use of this database or works produced from it must include the above attribution. Derivative databases must also be released under ODbL.