iBegin Ottawa and some Toronto stats
And the march has begun! I am very happy to announce that iBegin Ottawa is now live and ready for use. There is a slight issue with the Google Maps integration (quite a few major roads are just referred to as ‘Regional Road XX’ but we are trying to get a status update on that (and if need be, switch to a different mapping provider).
iBegin Toronto has now been live for just over 7 months. We now feature over 43,000 listings in Toronto (this is not the entire GTA but ‘Toronto’ itself). For those listings, 5,145 have a website url associated with them, 6,065 have descriptions, 1,607 have pictures, and 837 have business hours. We do roughly 10-25 database updates a day, helping ensure that our data is as accurate as possible. Based on that confidence, I do wish there was a way of comparing the accuracy of data between companies. There was a good discussion at Screenwerk about how local accuracy is very hard to attain (and I did throw in one of our ideas there), but unfortunately no real methodology of comparison. If anyone does know of a way, leave a comment or contact us.