Licenses & data sources
Seek N-Dakota listings are seeded from openly-licensed place data and enriched with live Google Places details. We do not store Google Places reviews or photos in our database. Attribution for every data source is kept here and on each listing where applicable.
Last updated November 2026
Google Places
Listing pages display live business details — including reviews and editorial summaries — fetched on demand from the Google Places API. This data is cached briefly in memory (up to 12 hours) for performance and is never persisted to our database. Google Places reviews and photos are the property of Google and its contributors and are displayed subject to the Google Maps Platform terms of service.
Google and the Google logo are registered trademarks of Google LLC. Use of Google Places data is subject to the Google Maps Platform Terms of Service.
Overture Maps — Places
Business records (name, address, category, phone, website, lat/lng, confidence, operating status) are sourced from the Overture Maps Foundation Places dataset, licensed under CDLA-Permissive-2.0. Some attributes are contributed by Foursquare under Apache License 2.0 and carry the applicable NOTICE terms.
Data © Overture Maps Foundation. Used under CDLA-Permissive-2.0.
Image credits
Listing photos (hero images, logos, and gallery images) are uploaded by verified business owners or sourced from openly-licensed imagery. Hub and category banner images are sourced from openly-licensed collections. If you believe an image is used without proper attribution or permission, contact us and we will review and remove it promptly.
Overture CSV import mapping
Each imported row becomes one contact in our directory. The columns below map to contact fields, custom fields, and tags.
| CSV column | Maps to | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| name | Contact name | Business name. |
| category | category custom field + cat: tag | Maps to a Seek N-Dakota category slug. |
| address | Contact address | Street address. |
| city | Contact city + city: tag | City slug drives the city page. |
| state | Contact state | Fixed to ND. |
| zip | Contact postalCode | 5-digit ZIP. |
| phone | Contact phone | Optional. |
| website | Contact website | Optional; enables the "has website" filter. |
| lat | lat custom field | Map-ready. |
| lng | lng custom field | Map-ready. |
| confidence | confidence custom field | Overture confidence score. |
| operating_status | operating_status custom field | e.g. operating / closed. |
| source | source custom field | Provenance for attribution. |
| license_notes | license_notes custom field | Per-row license/attribution. |
Smart lists
Recommended smart lists for moderation and discovery:
- Per citytag city:<slug>One smart list per indexed city.
- Per categorytag cat:<slug>One smart list per category.
- Pending claimstag status:pendingClaim verification queue.
- Verified with logotag status:verified + logo_url presentFeatured-ready listings.
Privacy & opt-out
Some listings may represent home-based businesses. If you are a business owner and would prefer your listing not appear, or you would like an address or phone removed, contact us and we will update or remove the record. We never publish unverified demonstration data as real listings.
See our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service for details.
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