Continued working on matching OSM nodes with VSI stores. There were 6 near-perfect matches (exact same name, points less than 10 m apart), but after introducing some fuzziness to the name comparison, that number jumps to 23!

I manually inspected those 23 pairs and indeed they seem to be referring to the same business. The matching remaining in the initial 10 m matching attempt is “49th parallel cafe & lucky’s doughnuts” in OSM vs “49th Parallel Coffee Roasters” in VSI. This one requires further inquiry to see if the OSM should really be updated or not.

I’m not totally satisfied with this 10 m threshold though. It’s arbitrary and not really what I’m looking after. I think I’ll redo the analysis but using “nearest VSI business within 100 m”, so that each OSM node will always match at most one VSI store and it won’t be so strict on the distance.