Getting Started

  1. Sign up for an AWS account if you don’t have one already.

  2. Setup 2 (two) Amazon S3 buckets

    You can create S3 bucket through your AWS Console. Since SafeGraph Core Places - Entire Canada (Essential Columns) is currently hosted in AWS Region us-east-1, to avoid any unnecessary data transfer cost, it is recommended for you to create your S3 buckets in the same region. You can leave the other default setting unchanged. create bucket

    a. First S3 bucket to be used to copy over dataset from SafeGraph Core Places - Entire Canada (Essential Columns)

    b. Second S3 bucket to be used as Athena query output. Athena is serverless query engine, with pay per execution, Athena uses an S3 bucket to store its query result

  3. Request subscription to Free POI Data: SafeGraph Core Places - Entire Canada (Essential Columns) through your AWS Data Exchange Console

  4. Wait until your subscription is approved. You will receive an email notification and have access to it directly through AWS Data Exchange Console left navigation panel “My Subscriptions” -> “Entitled Data”