Questions tagged [point-of-interest]
A point of interest (or point feature) is a specific geographic location that someone may find useful or interesting.
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How to display in QGIS a mountain saddle with a symbol which indicates the orientation of the saddle?
I exported mountain saddles (natural=saddle) from overpass-turbo.eu as GeoJSON.
I manged to display the saddles on a map with a symbol/marker like a point.
I'd rather like to display the saddles on ...
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Create New Feature_ID following Series of numbers
I have two datasets of data let say set_1 and set_2. set_1 is original dataset and set_2 is modified dataset (duplicates and wrong data has been removed from the data).
Due to the modification some of ...
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Find point lies on a line segment
I have two layers. One contains multiline and other contains point geometry. I want to check on a given line segment which point lies. In this way I need to list all points which is marked on the ...
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How to generate ov2 poi programmatically from csv source
I'm looking at how to generate an ov2 file programmatically. Mainly I use python and I found something like this. But that kinda vague. I can't find documentation on how the file is build up. Also it ...
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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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Removing symbols from area that is also shown on inset map using QGIS
I have a layer with locations. I want to display this on a layout that has a map at a small scale (main map) and an inset map at a bigger scale. I do not want to show on the main map the symbols that ...
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Lat Lng Search Along Line from Direction (Geographic North)
Most of the lat lng searches are for POIs within a radius. How does one define POIs+(margin of error) that are along a (infinite) straight line (or geodesic or great sphere) defined by a north ...
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Merge nearby points from two shapefiles in QGIS
I am working with 2 shapefiles: points from one datasource and another. Some of the features are duplicates. However, since data quality in the second datasource is not as good as in the first one, ...
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Select evenly distirbuted points of unevenly distributed set
I have a task which looks pretty nontrivial yet pretty standard.
Let's say, I have a set of points, unevenly distributed on the map (i.e. in some regions there are a lot of points, while in the ...
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Defining point location at EPSG 4326 image
I am new in the field and I would like to ask which is the correct way to define a point location for an image with EPSG 4326 crs.
I used QGIS software, and created a .csv file with the latitude - ...
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Extracting point data from EPSG 4326 image [closed]
I am new in the field.
I am trying to extract remote sensing data from selected points. I am using a remote sensing image with CRS of EPSG:4326. I defined the points which I will extract data from by ...
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How to transfer POI layer from QGIS to OSMAnd?
I've got a POI layer (vector layer with single-point geometry) in QGIS and would like to import these points to OSMAnd under "My Locations" including the attributes (like name of the point). How can I ...
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Remove Sentinel 2 tiles with a given cloudy pixel - Google Earth Engine
I have a point of a given latitude and longitude.
I would like to filter out all Sentinel2 tiles where the particular pixel which the point is within is cloudy.
This is different from the more ...
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Getting wikimapia embeded in Leaflet map?
I have a leaflet map where I want to get wikimapia POI and data inside my map so I could identify some Points of interests and informations which are in wikimapia ,I have a wikimapia kml that loads in ...
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Adding detailed Google Maps baselayer on Leaflet
I know that Google map baselayer can be used in Leaflet like this:
googleMap = L.tileLayer('http://{s}.google.com/vt/lyrs=s&x={x}&y={y}&z={z}',{ maxZoom: 20, subdomains:['mt0','mt1','mt2',...
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Supplement Mapbox geocoder results with external geocoder API
I am still learning JS so please bear with me.
I have built a Mapbox GL JS map and would like to supplement Mapbox geocoding results with those from an external geocoding API as many POIs I need are ...
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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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Avoid OpenStreetMap loading shops, monuments, restaurants and any other POIs?
I am loading OpenStreetMap using Leaflet.
More or less I'm doing this:
var objmap = new L.Map(p_objCapaMapa, mapOptions);
var osmUrl = 'https://{s}.tile.openstreetmap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png';
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Which approach is faster for getting all POIs from MySQL/MariaDB with PHP/Laravel [closed]
Correct me if I'm wrong.
There are three approaches to get the nearest homes, users have created in my website:
To create a table with two columns(latitude, longitude) that both of them are float ...
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OpenStreetMap (OSM) POI tools/API
Currently I'm working with OSM. I just need to use it's POI tools/API - https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/POI_tools/API in order to receive data in json format. But I can't understand what the URL ...
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Detecting if GPS coordinates fall within polygon of points?
I'm looking for a simple explanation on how to detect if GPS coordinates fall within a polygon of points.
I would prefer an explanations that can be done using paper and pencil and not programming ...
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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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Finding POIs in Postgresql around point
I'm trying to select POIs from around given location within some distance. I tried so far two approaches I found online, but unfortunately none seems to be working - I'm getting no rows despite the ...
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Extracting POI from Openstreetmap (*.osm)
I've searched the web and found out that "osmosis" is the key.
also, this blog http://learnosm.org/en/osm-data/osmosis/ gave me a huge hint and i made it to extract POI tag by tag
(by the way, i am ...
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Convert Some unknown location format to Decimal format
I have seen one Website, which contains the coordinate and other information. I found that coordinates is in a different format, I can't convert to decimal format.
The Website is : Check here ...
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Iterating over point layer and select another layer's points in radius using PyQGIS?
I found this code snippet in Selecting features within certain buffer distance of selected feature using PyQGIS?, which is almost what I'm looking for, except I don't have polylines but points and I ...
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Checking two different releases of POI Features for not only spatial differences using ArcPy?
I have Point Of Interest (POI) data for two different years. I wrote code to get two feature classes where each contains the POIs that differ (spatially) from the other release. I make mostly use of ...
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Listing churches with their administrative location using Overpass
I'd like to extract a list of churches from OSM with their name, their coordinates and the name of the lower administrative division they belong to. I managed to get the first ones with:
area["name"="...
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Finding all the POIs in the world using OpenStreetMap?
I would like to extract airports' boundaries from OpenStreetMap.
Therefore, to extract data from a given country, for instance France I do:
area["name"="France"]->.boundaryarea;
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node(area....
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Finding all airports in given country or region using Overpass API?
I'm starting using the Overpass API and I would like to request airports data in some given regions and countries.
So for instance, I've written,
{{geocodeArea:Île-de-France}}->.searchArea;
node["...
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Measuring positional accuracy of points in QGIS?
I am looking for an approach to calculate and assess the positional accuracy of POIs in QGIS.
I have two layers that show the locations of supermarkets:
One is from a commercial database and the ...
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Where to get bounding boxes of places / POIs?
How and where to get bounding boxes of places / POIs? Preferably, for free.
For example, on OSM I can see a place drawing displayed on a may and with zooming-out one can see corners as latitude and ...
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Erdas 2014 process time signature editor supervised classification
I am currently using erdas imagine 2014 with 64bit OS. Basic configurations of my computer are; i7 3820 3.60 GHz CPU, 16 GB memory (RAM), gforce GTX 680 SLI 256 bit Graphic card ( 2GPU ), 250 GB ssd. ...
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GPS Coordinates to POI
I need to convert a pair of (latitude, longitude) coordinates to a POI if available. I am able to reverse-geocode the coordinates to an address. After that is there a way to map the address to a POI ...
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Route planning with detours for "nearby" Points of Interest
I want to know if Google maps, Open Streetmap, or some alternative, lets me plan a route by foot (or bicycle, maybe also car, or even public transportation, but by foot is my initial project) from ...
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Android Mapping App for POIs
I am looking for an offline map that can import a large number (>50k) of POIs and overlay them onto the map.
It should provide at least some basic search functions, e.g. show POIs sorted by distance ...
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Finding nearest point using point dataset using QGIS?
I have created Geocode for some area and I couldn't find accurate Geocode's for few address. so I want to find the nearest POI for non accurated locations using accurated geocodes as referece in QGIS. ...
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Point feature changes over time?
QGIS strategy for denoting point feature changes over time?
My project file has a shapefile layer (point symbols) geolocating 50 historic street name mosaics embedded in concrete sidewalks throughout ...
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Leaflet - Load markers in the current map - dynamically
I am looking for a marker plugin for leaflet that allows loading of markers dynamically, according to the current view.
E.g. I want to add OSM POIs to a world-wide map. Obviously loading all at once ...
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Group and align icons in QGIS atlas
I am making an atlas of protected areas using QGIS. I am using version 2.12, but this question will probably also apply to version 2.14 as well.
Several points of interest (poi) objects are presented ...
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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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Colliding labels for point features in QGIS
I have a layer (point features) containing various points of interest (POIs), some of them have the exact same location. I would like to map these POIs and add a label showing their names.
However, ...
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How to load POI based on map movements?
I'm currently creating a new website based on geo-localised informations, which is quite new to me.
I need to display my points of interest according to where the map is, and where the user make it ...
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Is there an easy way to read output from Open Data Kit in QGIS?
I use Open Data Kit (ODK) to do field collection of points of interest. ODK outputs each collected point as an XML-file with a structure like so:
<?xml version='1.0' ?>
<data id="...
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Checking if a POI is on the road
I have a list of POIs from around the world and their latlongs. I also have the database from all roads in the world. What I want to do is find the popular roads from all of these.
My idea was to ...
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Find intersections between spatial lines and points using R
This question assumes that I'm using R with the sp and rgdal packages installed. Now that I have a set of spatial segments of class SpatialLinesDataFrame (called 'segmentData') and a set of spatial ...
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Selecting Polygons based on multiple POI with radii using ArcGIS for Desktop?
I have a polygon layer of suburbs (with population density) and I have separate layers of POI such as hospitals, government buildings etc. What I'd like to do is give each POI a radius based on how ...
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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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Distribution of POI query result
There are a lot of POIS in the database with fileds id name address lon lat.
When we tried to query some points for a given bounding box, it is simple to build the accordingly sql and get the results,...
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Leaflet: performant handling of POIs all over the world
When you have a leaflet.js application, such as my experimental toy for xkcd GeoHashing (look at geohashing.cgi plus mirkarte.js), you have to draw points all over the world. In the GeoHashing case, ...
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