dank41582
29 May 2015
Life / Local business finder in Poland [2]
So in the states, if you wanted to find a restaurant or a coffee shop or any type of local business, you could go to google maps and search for "coffee shop" or "electronics store" for example and the map would show you 95% of local businesses that fit that description in the area. Or you could use a different site such as yelp. You could also read reviews of such establishments on these sites.
It seems that neither google maps nor yelp are of much help here in Warsaw. There are loads of coffee shops in the city for example but on google maps the only ones showing up are the chains like green cafe nero and starbucks.
Is there a web site equivalent in Poland (or Warsaw specifically) that is popular and has a good listing of local businesses? It looks like zomato might be the closest for restaurants and cafes but I doubt that site reaches the 50% mark as a lot of existing coffee shops don't show up on their site.
So in short, I'm looking for a website with the following characteristics:
-a near complete accurate listing of all of the local businesses (restaurants, stores, tailors, bakeries, etc)
-user reviews
-a map view that displays business that fit your search terms
-free for public use
If it doesn't exist, I wonder why not? Is there so much turnover on business that the list was hard to keep up with?
So in the states, if you wanted to find a restaurant or a coffee shop or any type of local business, you could go to google maps and search for "coffee shop" or "electronics store" for example and the map would show you 95% of local businesses that fit that description in the area. Or you could use a different site such as yelp. You could also read reviews of such establishments on these sites.
It seems that neither google maps nor yelp are of much help here in Warsaw. There are loads of coffee shops in the city for example but on google maps the only ones showing up are the chains like green cafe nero and starbucks.
Is there a web site equivalent in Poland (or Warsaw specifically) that is popular and has a good listing of local businesses? It looks like zomato might be the closest for restaurants and cafes but I doubt that site reaches the 50% mark as a lot of existing coffee shops don't show up on their site.
So in short, I'm looking for a website with the following characteristics:
-a near complete accurate listing of all of the local businesses (restaurants, stores, tailors, bakeries, etc)
-user reviews
-a map view that displays business that fit your search terms
-free for public use
If it doesn't exist, I wonder why not? Is there so much turnover on business that the list was hard to keep up with?