Zenbu Categories

The Zenbu Category system is, an extended, subset of the Type Hierarchy published by schema.org. You can see the full hierarchy here http://www.schema.org/docs/full.html. In particular we are using the Place and Organization types.

The full list of live Zenbu Categories can be seen here http://www.zenbu.org/categories/about.

There are categories for the major sectors that people search for, Food, Accommodation, Auto Services, and "sub-categories" for many of those.

For example the FoodEstablishment category breaks down into the following categories. Bakery, BarOrPub, Brewery, CafeOrCoffeeShop, FastFoodRestaurant, IceCreamShop, Restaurant, Winery

The classification is not exhaustive. There is not a category for everything. If a suitable category is not available for an entry, the Description field still allows the use of free-text. Most of the Top Local Search Categories have a Zenbu Category.

There are tables linking the Zenbu Categories to OSM Categories and Navit Categories.