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Avoid OpenStreetMap loading shops, monuments, restaurants and any other POIs?
Simple answer: You can not.
Unlike Google maps API, these icons are part of the pre-rendered tiles you get from openstreetmap.org, and there is nothing you can do about it.
You may however look for ...
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Listing churches with their administrative location using Overpass
Similar to an example in the Overpass by Example library, I'd suggest to use the following query:
[timeout:60];
area["name"="Mayenne"]->.boundaryarea;
way(area.boundaryarea)[&...
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Convert Some unknown location format to Decimal format
The coordinates seem to be are in "Swiss grid" coordinate System. EPSG:21781
-> Copy paste the table to a Text file (it will be tab-separated CSV), remove the ' between the numbers. Replace the / ...
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Detecting if GPS coordinates fall within polygon of points?
If you want a really simple algorithm how about this:
Take your point and draw a straight line to the bounding box of your polygon.
Count how many times it crosses the polygon boundary.
If number is ...
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Finding all airports in given country or region using Overpass API?
The best starting point for overpass queries is the Openstreetmap wiki, follow the overpass-turbo link on the left. It generates the following query:
[out:json][timeout:25];
// gather results
(
// ...
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Seeking dataset locating points of interest such as fire stations in Canada?
You can use the data from openstreetmap. The data is free and can be obtained from overpass api.
Here is a link to overpass turbo
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Extracting POI from Openstreetmap (*.osm)
easy.
1. download *.osm.pbf
2. install osmosis
3. in the command window type
osmosis --rbf INPUT.osm.pbf --nk keyList="amenity" --wx OUTPUT.osm
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Finding all the POIs in the world using OpenStreetMap?
Basically, you can just drop the area parts of your query to get what you want:
(
node["aeroway"="aerodrome"];
way["aeroway"="aerodrome"];>;
relation["aeroway"="aerodrome"];>>;);
out ...
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Iterating over point layer and select another layer's points in radius using PyQGIS?
To select all points in the points layer which is within bufDist of the points in the itpoint layer, you can use the following:
def selectPointsInRadius(bufDist):
inputlayer = QgsMapLayerRegistry....
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Adding detailed Google Maps baselayer on Leaflet
You can't. Google does not let developers to control the amount of POIs being shown, and does not let developers download POI sets. Furthermore, each GMaps user will see more or less POIs depending on ...
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How to display in QGIS a mountain saddle with a symbol which indicates the orientation of the saddle?
You need the information on the orientation of the saddle clockwise in degree from North/0° as an attribute. Then use data defined override on the rotation of the symbol, handing it the field ...
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OpenStreetMap (OSM) POI tools/API
Looks like you stumbled upon some dead project (POI tools). What are you really trying to achieve?
Take a look Overpass API instead. The Overpass_API Language_Guide has lots of useful examples for ...
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Iterating over point layer and select another layer's points in radius using PyQGIS?
I perform things like this with this code snippets:
inputlayer = QgsMapLayerRegistry.instance().mapLayersByName('pieces_sepc')[0]
itlayer = QgsMapLayerRegistry.instance().mapLayersByName('POINT')[0]
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Get position in meters of POI on a polyline
That's a non-trivial thing to do without a broader set of trajectory analytics functionality at hand or in your own development.
However, a natural concept for this and similar, more specific linear ...
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POI database of tourist attractions, or POI database with popularity index
If you are still looking for a suitable data for this, try Sygic Travel Places API
It provides a global POIs database tailored for travel industry - the places are ranked by popularity and you can ...
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Colliding labels for point features in QGIS
I feel your pain... However I was lucky enough to have only up to 10 labels on the same point feature.
By increasing the distance value (in my case 30.0000) under the placement tab in layer ...
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Remove Sentinel 2 tiles with a given cloudy pixel - Google Earth Engine
Ok, @Mathieu's answer is heading in the right direction, but I'll expand it with the code: (I made some comments in the code)
var point = ee.Geometry.Point([13.93, -14.51]);
// function to extract ...
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How to transfer POI layer from QGIS to OSMAnd?
Eventually, I was able to import the POIs into OSMAnd as GPX format. However, it was necessary to enable the GPX_USE_EXTENSIONS when exporting it in QGIS in order to allow OSMAnd to import the string ...
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List of commonly used categories in POIs
I don't know if there are any off-the-shelf solutions to do what you want (perhaps by interogating the taginfo api), but it is an active research topic.
Several researchers have proposed ontologies (...
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Create New Feature_ID following Series of numbers
Select the new features. You can use Select by Expression with fid is NULL.
Run Field calculator and check the box next to Only update [n] selected features.
You could even update $id for all fid ...
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Create New Feature_ID following Series of numbers
I don't know how you created your data. However, the behaviour is not normal. Normally, you should not need to care about the id this way, as QGIS would handle this automatically the way you want. ...
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Extracting point data from EPSG 4326 image
EPSG 4326 is a coordinate system. Its units are degrees of latitude and longitude. If you define the lat/long of a point, then you know where that point is. There's nothing wrong with using EPSG 4326 ...
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How to transfer POI layer from QGIS to OSMAnd?
I think you should try to export to GPX (GPS eXchange) Format.
Check this: Importing GPX in OSMAnd.
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Remove Sentinel 2 tiles with a given cloudy pixel - Google Earth Engine
keep all of them in the collection and then use the QA60 band to mask cloudy pixel out. It's not perfect but usually a good start.
Whatever reduction you do later, a masked pixel would not affect the ...
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Supplement Mapbox geocoder results with external geocoder API
What you're trying to do won't work since the localGeocoder option to mapbox-gl-geocoder is synchronous, so it can't be used to supplement results from a 3rd party API without https://github.com/...
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Detecting if GPS coordinates fall within polygon of points?
This video explains it very clear to understand. https://youtu.be/RSXM9bgqxJM?si=zKVuHF_YtrcTS7Ec
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Checking two different releases of POI Features for not only spatial differences using ArcPy?
Please try adding the following codes after your original code;
# Analyse near featues using the Near_analysis tool
arcpy.Near_analysis(old_diffs, new_layer, "5 METER") # assuming your tolorance is ...
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Finding all airports in given country or region using Overpass API?
You could try GeoNames API. I use it for a very similar purpose. See the documentation here. Note the documentation on searchLanguage and IATA codes!
Alternatively you could look at OpenFlight ...
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Finding all airports in given country or region using Overpass API?
National Transportation Atlas Database
http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/publications/national_transportation_atlas_database/index.html
ICAO
http://gis.icao.int/gallery/
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Measuring positional accuracy of points in QGIS?
Depending on how your data is structured you can use the tool "Distance Matrix" from the menue "Vector-Analysis". It compares two point datasets point-by-point for their distances. Necessary is a key-...
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