Location

Handling Location in Product Opener

Inferring countries

• from scans
• from packaging OCRs
• from fields that contain geo info
• from barcode ranges when they can be linked to a reliable single country GLN

Taxonomies

https://en.wiki.openfoodfacts.org/French_locations_taxonomy

Fields that contain geo info

• Packaging Codes : EMB codes and EU codes, see #packaging_codes
  • https://github.com/openfoodfacts/bio-codes
  • https://github.com/openfoodfacts/eu-food-data
  • https://github.com/openfoodfacts/msc-codes
  • FSC codes

• Countries where sold
• Stores (sometime, contributors put the exact address)
• City, state and country where purchased
• Origin of Ingredients
• Manufacturing or processing places

That means we need:

• Oceans and seas
• FAO zones (for oceans and seas)
• Political zones (Europe, common market btw Russia and other states…)
• Countries (we already have a linked taxonomy)
• Department and intermediate zones
• Cities
• Street addresses (for factories…)

Ideally, we want all those to be:

• linked to Wikidata (some of the items are linked to OSM, not all OSM items exist in Wikidata)
• linked to Open Street Map

Current reuses

• https://cestemballepresdechezvous.fr/
• http://madenear.me/

TODO

• taxonomize fields
• load remaining EU countries
• improve individual packaging code pages
• handle BIO codes better (in labels) by displaying the country of certification

Bugs

https://github.com/openfoodfacts/openfoodfacts-server/milestones/Location%20Location%20Location