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Maurice 715993feaf feat(places): descriptions from the place's own website
Overture has no descriptions, and the encyclopaedias only describe the
places that have an article, which is a fraction of a percent. What
Overture does have is the address of the page the description is on, for
43 percent of places, and those pages publish a summary in JSON-LD or
og:description precisely so machines can read it.

The API fetches each page once and keeps the summary; every instance
reads it from there. TREK never opens a business's website itself, which
would mean one request per instance per place against small servers.

In the ladder it sits below the encyclopaedias and above Google: an
article about this exact place beats the operator's own copy, but for a
restaurant or a shop the operator's summary is the only one that exists.
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