Where listings come from

Nearwick lists businesses from three sources.

1. A licensed business directory dataset for Ghana that Faciotech holds.
2. OpenStreetMap, the free map of the world made by its contributors. We search it around the towns GeoNames lists for each country, and add new businesses every night.
3. Businesses themselves, who add their business or claim its page. A person at Nearwick reviews each one before it goes live.

Businesses’ own websites

When a listed business has its own public website, Nearwick reads it to add the business’s own description, opening hours and services. The reader identifies itself as NearwickBot and keeps to each site’s robots.txt. Read about NearwickBot.

An AI model may help read a page. Any fact taken from a page must appear on that page. Nothing is invented.

Only unclaimed listings are read this way. Once a business claims its page, NearwickBot stops reading its website for it.

What we never publish

We never publish the names of contact people. Phone numbers and email addresses from datasets stay hidden until the business claims its page and chooses what to show.

Credits

OpenStreetMap data is © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence 1.0. Town names come from GeoNames, under CC BY 4.0. See sources and licences.