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Tagged with data point-of-interest
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List of commonly used categories in POIs
I want to add POI management functionality to an existing software project. Though providing a list of categories seems a bit tricky. On one side, I do not want to reinvent the wheel and create my own ...
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Looking for free POIs for Ireland?
My project is an Android travel app with Irish map and POIs.
Where can I find free sources with Irish POIs?
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Seeking dataset locating points of interest such as fire stations in Canada?
Is there a dataset locating points of interest such as fire stations in Canada?
I tried using the one at http://www.mapcruzin.com/ but the accuracy was not correct.
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Where can I find a list with beaches which include coordinates?
I use World Weather Online marine API to get wave height of different beaches. This API provide data by coordinates and I need a list with coordinates of beaches.
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Global POI database in JSON format?
Does anyone knows if there is a flat file database of points of interest in a json format somewhere available for download? If not how would one set off to create such a database? Are there any tools ...
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Seeking Shapefiles of Restaurants in South Florida?
I am doing a project on food trucks for my Intro to GIS class and am looking for locations of places to eat here in South Florida to overlay with places of business. I would like to make a map of ...
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Getting business listing data for mapping for New York? [duplicate]
How should I go about efficiently compiling the data to map the locations of all the businesses within a given city or town? Are there any free online resources that offer searching businesses by ...
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Where to find POI data for places of worship (e.g. churches)?
I am looking for free U.S. state-wide and/or county-wide shapefiles that include geographic locations for places of worship. Examples include churches, temples, synagogues, and mosques. In other ...
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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 there ...
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Touristic poi-data (api or dump) with popularity measure? [closed]
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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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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Databases of bars, pubs and restaurants in United States and 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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Sites with recreational shapefiles for United States?
Do you know of any sites that I could find some recreational shapefiles?
An example would be shapefiles of golf courses, ski resorts, or maybe baseball fields in the United States?
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Seeking shapefiles of business locations [duplicate]
Does anyone know where to find shapefiles of businesses such as grocery stores or gas stations?
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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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Seeking 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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Seeking 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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Seeking US State or National business (or employer) database lists
This question dovetails with What kind of datasets are necessary for geomarketing applications?.
I am familiar with some of larger, paid-for business registry's like InfoUSA and Dunn & Bradstreet. ...
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Seeking national (USA) interstate rest stop/rest area dataset
Does a national(USA) interstate rest stop/rest area dataset exist?
I don't care about format because I can worry about that later. I found some maps in Google maps, usually per state. I also have one ...
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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 ...
