We updated our Amenities & Social infrastructure database today with nearly 400 additional locations representing our selected categories.
New locations
This update included 193 locations obtained from OpenStreetMap – 90 additional restaurants, 13 non-profit offices, 65 convenience stores, 24 banks, 21 health clinics, 7 supermarkets and more.
Secondly, we added 192 federally-qualified health centers in Cook County. We added this based on a suggestion from a member who needed to know where these were in relation to the properties they acquire for long-term affordable housing.
Thirdly, we updated the Chicago Public Schools locations, removing four schools that CPS closed on July 1, 2020 (Frazier ES, Chicago Virtual ES/HS, Foundations MS/HS, and Hope HS).
While Google Maps has the largest database of places in Chicagoland, only ours can be filtered by area (useful for doing market analysis, creating listing brochures, and assessing the value of a property) and downloaded. Our map will also summarize and count the number of locations in each category.
It can always improve so send your suggestions for new businesses or locations that are closed and need to be removed.
What else is in the overhaul?
As for that overhaul promised in the headline, we made two big changes:
- All locations show related icons - a coffee mug for a café or bakery, a heartbeat for a health clinic, and fries for a fast food restaurant (see the screenshot below).
- Amenities & Social infrastructure is integrated in 100% of our Place Snapshots and every Personal Place that you draw yourself. The screenshot of Little Village below shows 318 locations, including 124 restaurants!
