Where the listings come from
Every listing starts from a public record or an open dataset. Here is each one, who publishes it and the terms it comes under.
Public records and open data
Listings are built from these files. Each entry names its publisher and the terms the publisher states. A listing links to the issuer's own record where there is one, and shows the date it was checked.
- California Contractors State License Board public licence file
Published by California Contractors State License Board. Terms: California public record (CSLB Public Data Portal); the State of California's conditions of use apply.
Source · Terms - California DCA business licenses
Published by California Department of Consumer Affairs. Terms: California public records (DCA public licensee lists).
Source · Terms - Oregon CCB active contractor licenses
Published by Oregon Construction Contractors Board. Terms: Public domain (as published on data.oregon.gov).
Source · Terms - WA L&I contractor licenses
Published by Washington State Department of Labor & Industries. Terms: Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL) 1.0.
Source · Terms - Texas TDLR business licenses
Published by Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. Terms: Texas Open Data Portal, public information (no restriction stated).
Source · Terms - FDIC BankFind insured institutions
Published by Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Terms: US government work (public domain).
Source · Terms - FDIC BankFind insured offices
Published by Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Terms: US government work (public domain).
Source · Terms - NCUA federally insured credit unions
Published by National Credit Union Administration. Terms: US government work (public domain).
Source · Terms - NCUA credit union offices
Published by National Credit Union Administration. Terms: US government work (public domain).
Source · Terms - FMCSA active motor carriers
Published by Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Terms: US government work (public domain).
Source · Terms - SAM.gov registered entities
Published by General Services Administration (SAM.gov). Terms: US government work (public domain); SAM.gov terms of use apply.
Source · Terms - IRS exempt organizations (EO BMF)
Published by Internal Revenue Service. Terms: US government work (public domain).
Source · Terms - NPPES health care organizations (NPI Type 2)
Published by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Terms: US government work (public domain), released under FOIA.
Source · Terms - Overture Maps places (US)
Published by Overture Maps Foundation. Terms: CDLA-Permissive-2.0 (per-record sources in the release).
Source · Terms - Colorado DORA business licenses
Published by Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies. Terms: Public domain (as published on data.colorado.gov).
Source · Terms - New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs business licenses
Published by New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs. Terms: New Jersey public records (DCA standard licensee files).
Source · Terms - New York Department of State business licenses
Published by New York State Department of State. Terms: Public record, no licence stated (data.ny.gov).
Source · Terms - New York Department of Labor Contractor Registry
Published by New York State Department of Labor. Terms: Public record, no licence stated (data.ny.gov).
Source - Florida DBPR business licenses
Published by Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation. Terms: Florida public records (Chapter 119, F.S.).
Source · Terms - Connecticut DCP business licenses
Published by Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection. Terms: Public Domain.
Source · Terms - Minnesota DLI business licenses
Published by Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry. Terms: Public data (Minnesota Government Data Practices Act); attribution to the Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry requested.
Source - Virginia DPOR business licenses
Published by Virginia Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation. Terms: Virginia public records (DPOR regulant lists).
Source · Terms
Places, codes and your town
These are not listings. They place a search on the map, name each category and find the city a visitor is in. The privacy policy says how the location lookup works.
- Census 2024 Gazetteer files: ZIP code tabulation areas and places. Where each ZIP code and town is, so a search can find businesses near a place.
Published by US Census Bureau. Terms: US government work (public domain).
Source - NAICS 2022 codes. The federal code behind every category.
Published by US Census Bureau. Terms: US government work (public domain).
Source - IP to City Lite. The city an IP address belongs to, looked up on our own server for the front page's local line.
Published by DB-IP (db-ip.com). Terms: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
IP Geolocation by DB-IP · Terms
Overture Maps places
Some listings come from the Overture Maps Foundation's places data, release 2026-10-21.0, published under CDLA-Permissive-2.0. Release notes · Overture's attribution page.
Each Overture record names its own contributing datasets. These contribute to the US places used here, under the licences the release states:
- Meta: CDLA-Permissive-2.0
- Microsoft: CDLA-Permissive-2.0
- BrightQuery: CDLA-Permissive-2.0
- Uberall: CDLA-Permissive-2.0
- DAC: CDLA-Permissive-2.0
- Birdeye: CDLA-Permissive-2.0
- PinMeTo: CDLA-Permissive-2.0
- RenderSEO: CDLA-Permissive-2.0
- OpenTravel Alliance: CDLA-Permissive-2.0
- Foursquare: Apache-2.0
- AllThePlaces: CC0-1.0
Overture's attribution for its Foursquare data: “Data from Foursquare. Copyright 2024 Foursquare Labs, Inc. All rights reserved. Available under Apache 2.0. Foursquare data was transformed to the Overture schema. Changed: 2026-03-18.”
DouxProcess changed the data. It keeps US places of business that are not marked closed, have an Overture confidence of 0.70 or more and fall in a category the directory lists, and maps each to that category. A listing takes the place's name, phone, website, city, state and ZIP code. Street addresses and map points from Overture are never shown, and no map point is stored.
Citation: Overture Maps Foundation, overturemaps.org.
CDLA-Permissive-2.0
Overture's places, with the data its CDLA-Permissive-2.0 contributors gave it, are shared under this agreement. The full text is below, and at cdla.dev.
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Apache License 2.0 and Foursquare's notice
Foursquare's open places reach the directory only through Overture, under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Foursquare's NOTICE.txt, in full:
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