[Qgis-user] Scraping Place of Interest data from Google Map API

[Tsering W. Shawa]

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.

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.

Many thanks,
-Wangyal


Tsering Wangyal Shawa

GIS and Map Librarian

Head, Map and Geospatial Information Center

Peter B. Lewis Library, Room 226

Washington Road & Ivy Lane

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544

Telephone: 609-258-6804

shawatw at princeton.edu

http://library.princeton.edu/collections/pumagic

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