{"key":"3cb193253d","origin":"osm","osm_id":"n6481298886","category":"Food & Drink","subcategory":"Café / Coffee","community":"Ganges","lat":48.8536477,"lon":-123.5015444,"verdict":"include","name":{"value":"Switchboard cafe","source":"enrichment"},"description":{"value":"Switchboard Cafe occupies a 1940s telephone exchange building in the heart of Ganges on Salt Spring Island, repurposed from connecting people by phone to connecting them over specialty coffee. The cafe serves direct-trade, sustainably sourced coffee alongside in-house baked goods and breakfast-and-lunch bites, all with vegan and gluten-free options, plus a retail shelf stocked with bulk beans and hard-to-find organic products. A genuine community hub, it also features rotating local artists' work on its walls and runs active composting and reusable-container programs.","source":"sonnet_4.6"},"website":{"value":"https://switchboardcafe.ca/","source":"enrichment"},"address":{"value":"122 Hereford Avenue, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia V8K 2T4, Canada","source":"enrichment"},"phone":{"value":"250.931.7070","source":"enrichment"},"email":{"value":"admin@switchboardcafe.ca","source":"html"},"route_slugs":[],"centrally_administered":false,"bike_parking_detail":null,"raw_osm":{"amenity":"cafe","cuisine":"coffee_shop","name":"Switchboard cafe","name:en":"Switchboard cafe","opening_hours":"Tu-Sa 08:00-15:30"},"enrichment_extras":{"reasoning":"The website confirms this is a specialty coffee shop in Ganges, Salt Spring Island (122 Hereford Avenue, V8K 2T4), with phone 250.931.7070 — the OSM community tag 'Duncan' is incorrect per both the website address and the coordinates, which place the pin on Salt Spring Island, not the Cowichan Valley. Vegan, plant-based, and GF options are explicitly and repeatedly confirmed across the website; takeout is supported by multiple references to 'on-the-go coffee lovers' and a dedicated retail shelf. No evidence for bike parking, washrooms, water refill, Wi-Fi, or any charging amenities was found anywhere on the website.","concerns":["OSM community tag is 'Duncan' but the business is clearly located on Salt Spring Island (Ganges), confirmed by both the website address (122 Hereford Avenue, Salt Spring Island, V8K 2T4) and the OSM coordinates, which plot to Salt Spring Island, not Duncan/Cowichan Valley. The community field should be corrected to Salt Spring Island or Ganges.","OSM name uses lowercase 'cafe' ('Switchboard cafe') while the website consistently uses title case 'Switchboard Cafe' — stored as OSM value per rules.","OSM record has no address or phone; both were sourced from the website only, so contact_confirmed is null for those fields."],"recommended_status_reason":"A well-established community coffee shop in the cycling-friendly Ganges village centre on Salt Spring Island, with food, vegan/GF options, and takeout — a natural stop for touring cyclists on the island.","confirmed_open":true,"contact_confirmed":{"phone":null,"website":true,"address":null},"notes":"Address, phone, and community all sourced from website; OSM record was missing all three. The cafe's historic building context (1940s telephone exchange) and sustainability ethos make it a notable stop worth highlighting in any listing copy."},"provenance":{"enrichment_run":"density","enrichment_model":"sonnet_4.6","verdict_source":"enrichment","category_source":"osm","category_correction_reason":null,"review_priority":false,"sidecars_applied":["subcategory","wow","price_tier"],"subcategory_source":"osm_tag","subcategory_confidence":"high"},"required_criteria":{"Washrooms":{"value":true,"source":"inferred:subcategory","date":"2026-07-18"},"Water bottle refill":{"value":true,"source":"inferred:subcategory","date":"2026-07-18"}},"optional_amenities":{"Takeout":{"value":true,"detail":null,"source":"sonnet_4.6","date":"2026-07-18"},"Vegetarian / vegan / GF":{"value":true,"detail":"Website explicitly states 'plant-based and GF options' (front page and about), and menu page confirms 'vegan and gluten free options' across baked goods and meals","source":"sonnet_4.6","date":"2026-07-18"}},"unmapped_criteria":{},"region":"Vancouver Island","ownership":"Buy BC (independent)","indigenous_role":[],"notability":1,"wow_evidence":"1940s telephone exchange building ... direct-trade, sustainably sourced coffee ... genuine community hub","price":{"band":1,"band_key":"cheap_eats","label":"Cheap eats","confidence":"high","source":"amenity_floor","signal":"amenity=cafe"},"tier":"info"}