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<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">Have any institutions purchased a subscription to scrape data from Google Maps using their API? One of our faculty members is interested in extracting place of interest (POI) data such
as banks, mosques, airports, casinos, etc. of Middle Eastern countries. A faculty member and her group tried to extract the Google Map data, but they reached the limit, and they are no longer allowed to scrape data. I am looking for any suggestions or advice
on purchasing a subscription for academic use, or on companies who sell these types of data. </div>
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<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">Initially we thought we could download the data from Open Street Map but when we compared data downloaded from Open Street Map (OSM) to data downloaded from Google map, we found that
Google has many more data points than OSM. Since OSM is a crowd source platform, we understand their limitations.</div>
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<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">Many thanks,</div>
<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">-Wangyal</div>
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<p>Tsering Wangyal Shawa</p>
<p>GIS and Map Librarian</p>
<p>Head, Map and Geospatial Information Center</p>
<p>Peter B. Lewis Library, <span style="font-size:12pt">Room 226</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt">Washington Road & Ivy Lane</span></p>
<p>Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544</p>
<p>Telephone: 609-258-6804</p>
<p>shawatw@princeton.edu</p>
<p>http://library.princeton.edu/collections/pumagic</p>
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