Canada — Business and Point-of-Interest Locations API

What you can build

Source POIs selected using Canadian boundaries; confidence, duplicates and attribution remain explicit. Use this dataset as a sourced input to an application, analytical model or retrieval tool. Retain its native dimensions when joining it with your own records.

Query Canada — Business and Point-of-Interest Locations

The example below is a real bounded request against the available release. Replace the environment variable with your server-side API credential. Review endpoint parameters and response schemas before changing selectors.

curl --fail --get "https://api.geoamcan.com/v1/canada/data?limit=1&dataset=ca-business-locations" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GEOAMCAN_API_KEY"

Saved response excerpt

{
  "country": "CA",
  "dataset": "ca-business-locations",
  "records": [
    {
      "feature_id": "00000d92-7bf4-4814-a1fc-86e21419980a",
      "name": "Lac Pearl (sjö i Kanada, Abitibi-Témiscamingue)",
      "category": "historic_site",
      "confidence": 0.7837538123130798,
      "properties": {
        "brand": {
          "names": {
            "rules": null,
            "common": null,
            "primary": null
          },
          "wikidata": null
        },
        "names": {
          "rules": null,
          "common": null,
          "primary": "Lac Pearl (sjö i Kanada, Abitibi-Témiscamingue)"
        },
        "emails": null,
        "phones": null,
        "socials": [
          "https://www.facebook.com/927243547356508"
        ],
        "sources": [
          {
            "between": null,
            "dataset": "meta",
            "license": "CDLA-Permissive-2.0",
            "version": "2026-09-14",
            "property": "",
            "provider": "meta",
            "resource": "meta",
            "record_id": "927243547356508",
            "confidence": 0.7837538123130798,
            "update_time": "2026-09-14T00:00:00.000Z"
          }
        ],
        "version": 8,
        "taxonomy": {
          "primary": "historic_site",
          "hierarchy": [
            "cultural_and_historic"
          ],
          "alternates": null
        },
        "websites": null,
        "addresses": [
          {
            "region": null,
            "country": "CA",
            "freeform": null,
            "locality": null,
            "postcode": null
          }
        ],
        "confidence": 0.7837538123130798,
        "basic_category": "historic_site"
      }
    }
  ],
  "returned_count": 1,
  "complete": false,
  "snapshot": {
    "ca-business-locations": {
      "release_id": 50,
      "release": "2026-09-23.1 revision 9a092725a16f",
      "fingerprint": "4d6e7e3dbfcfa8ec6bd019d13aae6077"
    }
  },
  "source_attribution": "Overture Maps Foundation and upstream sources; retain per-record sources and https://docs.overturemaps.org/attribution/",
  "coverage_limitations": [
    "Source completeness and duplicates are not guaranteed."
  ],
  "next_offset": 1
}

Captured 2026-10-26. Excerpt omits pagination credentials and may shorten nested records. Download verified source responses.

Coverage and interpretation

Coverage is limited to published source geographies and releases. Missing, suppressed and unavailable observations must not be treated as zero. Use Canadian DGUIDs and characteristic definitions; US GEOIDs are not interchangeable. Location records may contain incomplete categories or confidence fields. They are not the same statistical population as official establishment counts.

The active release shown here is a catalog snapshot. Check the live catalog and response provenance for current readiness. The underlying public source and Geoamcan access terms are separate; consult the source’s licensing and attribution requirements.

Source and methodology

Source: Overture Maps Foundation. Geoamcan is an independent API provider, with no agency affiliation or endorsement. Read our data methodology for source handling, geographic joins and update practices.

Related data

• Canada — Census Geographic Boundaries
• Canada — Census Population and Dwellings
• Canada — Census Profile
• Canada — Reported Postal Areas and Population