Data sources & credits

Listings in OntarioForYou.org are compiled from the sources below. Each is named with the dataset it came from, the licence it is used under, and the credit that licence requires. Where a licence makes attribution a condition of use, that credit is reproduced here word for word.

• Google Places — audited paid corpus (dated tags only)

  Google Places API business records, Ontario general-business corpus, May 2026 audited pull

  Licence:

  Google Maps Platform Terms of Service (credentialed paid API)

  Required credit:

  Google Maps

  Last updated from source:

  2026-05-16

  Verbatim: "When displaying Places API data without a Google Map, you must include the Google logo, adhering to the provided style guidelines and attribution requirements." Google specifies the Google Maps logo, or the TEXT "Google Maps" where space is constrained. There is no "Powered by Google" string mandated for this case. Scope is the 51 dated audited tags ONLY — the bare `google_places` tag is a separate, unresearched tripwire authority.

• Google Places — audited paid corpus (dated tags only)

  Google Places API business records, Canadian general-business corpus, April 2026 audited pull

  Licence:

  Google Maps Platform Terms of Service (credentialed paid API)

  Required credit:

  Google Maps

  Last updated from source:

  2026-04-07

  Verbatim: "When displaying Places API data without a Google Map, you must include the Google logo, adhering to the provided style guidelines and attribution requirements." Google specifies the Google Maps logo, or the TEXT "Google Maps" where space is constrained. There is no "Powered by Google" string mandated for this case. Scope is the 51 dated audited tags ONLY — the bare `google_places` tag is a separate, unresearched tripwire authority.

• legacy_pre_path_y (unknown provenance)

  Pre-PathY legacy rows — originating authority not recorded at load time

  Licence:

  No licence asserted — provenance not recorded

  Credited as (provenance not recorded):

  Compiled from publicly available listings (pre-2026 legacy data)

  Last updated from source:

  2026-05-15

  IRRECOVERABLE, NOT UNRESEARCHED. The originating authority was never recorded at load time, so no licence can be asserted and no credit can honestly be given. This is not closable by research; it closes by re-deriving provenance where a source identifier survives on the row, or by de-serving the remainder. In campgroundsnearme alone this is 2,840 SERVED rows.

• Self-serve (user submitted)

  Rows submitted by the business owner through /list-your-business

  Licence:

  Submitted by the listing owner under the site’s own Terms

  Last updated from source:

  2026-08-04

  Not an external authority. The row is contributed by the business itself through /list-your-business; the governing document is our own Terms. No third-party credit is owed.

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