Could you do the same for ramen restaurants?

[jstoxrocky]

I'm curious if you can find the nearest ramen shops too!

[kikkia]

That would be pretty interesting, The big thing is if I can find a dataset, which I will see if I can find one. Thanks for the idea.

[jstoxrocky]

Try here: https://itp.ne.jp/

Would need to scrape but the data is there and pretty accurate. Where did you get the conbini data from?

[kikkia]

Interesting, that site has addresses. I will need to look into translating addresses to Lat,Lon coordinates. I typically have seen only paid tools for that, but maybe the number would be low enough to keep it in some free tier.

[jstoxrocky]

No need to geocode the lat/lon from the address (that gets expensive - I know I run a web scraper for real estate listings). Just inspect the Map button and you see the lat/lon is included in the URL to Google Maps.

You could just scrape that.

I do a little geospatial research myself - I found this paper that looks at population growth and conbini in Sapporo. They mentioned they got their conbini geospatial data from the NTT site I linked above.

[kikkia]

That is such a great trick, thanks for that haha, I will need to look at that NTT site it looks really useful for stuff like this. Thanks

[jstoxrocky]

So how did you get the data for the conbini? Happy to chat in a DM if you don't want that public. It's hard to come across datasets like these.

[kikkia]

There are some cool datasets that you can fine when searching for "conbini map" on google too :)