Data, sources and attribution
A directory is only as good as its provenance. Every record here carries its source, and every field a machine inferred is marked as inferred on the page itself.
Where records come from
Licences and attribution
Location records sourced from OpenStreetMap are used under the Open Database Licence (ODbL). © OpenStreetMap contributors. Map tiles are served by CARTO from OpenStreetMap data. We do not scrape Google Maps or any competing directory.
Enrichment reads the public web pages of the businesses themselves, honours robots.txt, identifies itself in the user agent and is rate limited. Logos and brand names are the property of their owners and are used for identification only.
How businesses are ordered
Every business carries a profile score out of 100. It measures how much a buyer can learn and check from the listing, not how good the business is. It is the default order of every list on the site. The weights are published here in full, and they are the same numbers the database uses.
| Signal | Up to |
|---|---|
| Identity checked by a reviewer | 12 |
| Profile completeness | 20 |
| Has a working website | 8 |
| Has a phone number | 6 |
| Has an email address | 3 |
| Has a real description | 8 |
| Has a logo | 3 |
| Years in business | 6 |
| Classified into a furniture category | 5 |
| Reviews and rating | 9 |
| Factory or showroom footage, current certifications | 10 |
| Exact address and map position | 6 |
| Buyer interest in the page | 4 |
Paying for a plan adds nothing to the score. A verified identity does count, because a reviewer has checked it, and today verification comes with a claim, so a claimed page can gain up to 12 points that way. Featured placement is a separate slot above the ordered list and is always labelled as featured. Buyer interest is capped at a few points and grows logarithmically, so early attention cannot turn into a permanent lead.
Listings with no description, website or phone number are kept out of search engine indexes until they have something a searcher could use. They stay live on the site and become indexable automatically once that information is added.
Correcting a record
Every page has a “suggest an edit” control that needs no account. Corrections go to a moderation queue and, for straightforward fields, are applied within a day. If you own the business, claiming the page gives you direct editorial control instead.
Removal requests
A business can request removal of its listing. Publicly available business information is not personal data in most jurisdictions, but we honour removal requests from verified owners regardless. Closed businesses are marked closed rather than deleted, because people search for them.