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Russian GIS Data
Which companies are the best suppliers of vector, geocoding, imagery, and POI data in Russia? Which companies provide a complete service (which includes the above data types and also routing, ...
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How to find library or other business POIs?
I am just starting an Intro GIS course, so I really have no idea what the best place is to find downloadable GIS data. I was really hoping to do my semester project on library or bookstore locations ...
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Open source database of world locations [duplicate]
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Comprehensive list of Latitude and Longitude values of cities round the world
i would like to know if is out there any downloadable database of world locations,
i know ...
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Touristic poi-data (api or dump) with popularity measure
I'm looking for freely available touristic (hotel, restaurants, bars, attractions, etc.) poi-data that have some measure of popularity.
With popularity I mean, explicit popularity like on ...
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where do I download POIs from Wikipedia? placeopedia used to have them but is now gone
I am trying to improve OpenStreetMap in Siem Reap, Cambodia.
A way I am doing this is to add temple locations. I hear that there is a dataset of temple locations available from Wikipedia (presumably ...
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How to extract german restaurants from planet.osm?
Want to get the data out of http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Planet.osm
UPDATE: i just come back from the site http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Planet.osm
which has got some files that belong to ...
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Enrich a dataset of POIs with OpenStreetMap
I have a list of POIs, some with a full description and some with only a few data entries, like the following:
6.9441000 50.9242000 [50677] (Ital) Casa di Biase [Köln]
6.9373600 50.9291800 ...
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Is there an open source international GeoCoding database if you only need city level resolution?
I'm writing an application that needs to plot a user's location on the map, and the user could be anywhere in the world, but I only need city/town level resolution, not street address. Is there a ...
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Is there a comprehensive list of latitude and longitude values for cities around the world?
I'm developing an application that calculates the distance between cities using their respective Longitude and Latitude values.
But the problem is where to get a comprehensive list of latitude and ...
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mysql database of bars, pubs and restaurants in the united states and maybe canada
I am mostly seeking Bars and Pubs but Restaurants are a very nice bonus. I need a database with zipcode, city, state, longitude, latitude, establishment name, establishment contact information, maybe ...
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Do you know of any sites where I could find some cool recreational shapefiles?
Do you know of any sites that I could find some cool recreational shapefiles? An example would be shapefile of the golf courses, ski resorts, or maybe baseball fields in the united states?
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Seeking shapefiles of business locations
Does anyone know where to find shapefiles of businesses such as grocery stores or gas stations?
Thanks!!
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Converting SimpleGeo Places GeoJSON file to shapefile?
SimpleGeo has recently made their "Places" data set freely available which is GREAT, because now we can use it for our own purposes, even offline. So I went about downloading the 2GB dataset, which ...
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Looking for a world database with locations of medical centers, schools, kindergartens, etc
Is there some database with official information about medical centers, schools, POI's and their geo coordinates for all countries in the world? It doesn't have to be free, but I need the GEO ...
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Where to find a polygon database of golf courses in the US?
Does anyone know where I can find an accurate polygon database of all golf courses in the us?
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POI Datasets for North America
I use foursquare because it contains a lot of POIs.
Which database do you use when you need a point of interest in North America?
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GIS data for fast food industry
I am working a small project related to fast food industry. I am trying find GIS data for fast food chains like subway, MC Donald's, Arby's, etc in state of Ohio. Basically, I am looking for point ...
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Available US State or National business (or employer) database lists?
This question dovetails with this post on geomarketing applications.
I am familiar with some of larger, paid-for business registry's like InfoUSA and Dunn & Bradstreet. While the detailed ...
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Does a national(USA) interstate rest stop/rest area dataset exist?
And I don't care about format--worry about that later! I found some maps in Google maps, usually per state. I also have one map made my someone else, that no longer appears in the Google Maps search ...
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Where to license non-automotive POIs for France, Spain and Portugal?
qualified POIs are needed for a commercial project - should cover broad out-of-car usecases (not needed: parking, gas stations). Could be commercially licensable data or derived from national geodata ...
