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

[Madry, Scott]

Hi, Tsering.

You should look at the excellent Geofabrik.de<http://Geofabrik.de> data server from Germany:

https://download.geofabrik.de

They do a midnight download each night of all the OSM data, and covert it by continent and country to shapefiles and serve it for free each night.

While it may not have as much detail as you may wish, it is an excellent start, anywhere on the globe, and you can go from there with adding your own data.

Thanks to the Geofabrik team for this excellent public service!

Scott Madry



On Nov 30, 2020, at 6:30 PM, Tsering W. Shawa <shawatw at princeton.edu<mailto:shawatw at princeton.edu>> wrote:

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<mailto:shawatw at princeton.edu>
http://library.princeton.edu/collections/pumagic

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