Business POI & Locations (Government Open Registries)

What you get

• S — US city registries: 361,421 licensed business locations
• M — UK FHRS: 446,976 food-business establishments with hygiene ratings
• L — Full open-gov pack: 808,397 POIs across both sources
• Addresses, geocodes and normalized category labels
• Data dictionary, datasheet and QA report included

Coverage statistics

Records

808,397

Largest package

94.1 MB

Available packages

Real contents of the current builds — row counts, sizes and checksums come from the packaging manifest, not estimates.

Free Open Data — full downloads

This dataset is part of the DataForge Open Data program: the upstream license (Dual license — CC BY-NC 4.0 (DataForge curated layer; academic/personal use, attribution + backlink required); commercial use requires a DataForge commercial license. Upstream: UK OGL v3.0 (FHRS) + US city open-data terms; open_gov corpus only (0 OSM/ODbL)) permits free redistribution, so the complete packages below are free — no signup. Please cite DataForge (data.zalize.com) with a backlink when you use or share this data.

License: Dual license — CC BY-NC 4.0 (DataForge curated layer; academic/personal use, attribution + backlink required); commercial use requires a DataForge commercial license. Upstream: UK OGL v3.0 (FHRS) + US city open-data terms; open_gov corpus only (0 OSM/ODbL) · Attribution: Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0; via DataForge (data.zalize.com)

Full package inventory

Every package registered in the delivery catalog for this dataset — 77 packages, 7.6 GB total , 93,138,746 rows. Sizes, row counts and SHA-256 checksums come straight from the packaging pipeline.

How to get this data

All packages are hosted on the Hugging Face Hub: free/open packages live in a public dataset repo (direct downloads, no signup); paid or restricted editions are delivered from a private repo with token access after approval.

# Download the whole dataset repo (hf CLI — pip install -U huggingface_hub)
hf download zalizedata/business-poi-locations-dataset --repo-type dataset --local-dir business-poi-locations-dataset

# Or just one archive
hf download zalizedata/business-poi-locations-dataset archive/poi-tier1-L-2026-08-02.zip --repo-type dataset

Protocol access (hf://, resolve links, token auth for private repos) is documented in the developer docs →

Pricing

AI-training use requires the AI-Training tier (1.5× base); redistribution licensing is quoted individually. Annual subscriptions get 2 months free. License details →

Update frequency & delivery

• Sources: government open-data registries only (US city license portals, UK FHRS) — the self-serve packs contain zero OSM/ODbL records.
• An ODbL edition (OSM-merged) exists for approved buyers — request access.
• Every package ships with a MANIFEST (row counts, bytes, sha256).

Compliance & provenance

Collected only from publicly accessible pages and endpoints — no login-required data, no CAPTCHA solving, no forged authentication. Collection is rate-limited with an identified User-Agent, and collection logs are retained. PII is removed or pseudonymized. Every record carries its source URL and collection timestamp. Sold under a tiered commercial license.

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