Data from OSM https://taginfo.openstreetmap.in/tags/amenity=police#map
On Saturday, 31 August 2019 09:33:37 UTC+5:30, Nikhil VJ wrote: > > Hi Shruti, > > Sharing possible ways that I know of to find and build the data you're > looking for from the generally available map platforms. Sentences in > brackets give more background info for people new to the subject. Note: I > am adding an important caveat at the bottom. > > > *OpenStreetMap or OSM* (the all-open commons alternative to google maps > that you'll find members of this community earnestly pitching for) way: > Relevant tag/key-value pair : "amenity=police" . Link: > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dpolice > Query on Overpass Turbo (the "backend" of Openstreetmap and the quickest > way to search download specific data): https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/LX6 > > > *Google Places API* (the more complicated "backend" of Google maps which > while having more coverage for now, is way more restricted both technically > and legally and the reason why you'll find members of this community > earnestly pitching for moving to OSM / enriching OSM instead ) > ... lists "police" as one of the POI types than can be searched and > retrieved programmatically. > Link: https://developers.google.com/places/supported_types > > Note: Since the term "poiice" is generic, the direct search may also throw > up places that aren't police stations, eg: police training institutes. It's > safe to assume any dataset you get will be messy and will need considerable > manual work on it to get to an acceptable stage. > > > *Caveat:* We cannot expect full coverage or any proper answers about > extent of coverage (The usual answer to "does this cover everything?" is > "Nobody knows!") because that requires some official institution putting > the data out there, and if there had been one then one wouldn't need to > search on general map platforms. So what you get here is typically a > perpetual work-in-progress cobbling-together of data by ordinary people > volunteering time and effort. It will probably never be "complete" but it's > much better than nothing. The remedy to lack of coverage is to start > contributing to the common well and get others to do the same. > > > Regards > Nikhil VJ > Pune > > > On Friday, August 30, 2019 at 10:23:58 PM UTC+5:30, Ajayakumar A wrote: >> >> u can search in google map ( type it as *police stations*, first u hv >> to zoom the area, then u can type, if u search it for wide area in google >> map, u will not get full data.so u hv to locate some area and search the >> police station) and make it as kml files, then u can process it in Arcgis. >> U can prepare the map also. >> >> On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 8:12 PM Shruti Lakhtakia <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am a Ph.D. student working on crime and development in India, and I am >>> looking for: >>> >>> (1) a map of all the police stations in India, as well as their >>> jurisdictions, >>> (2) information on how police stations can be mapped to the assembly >>> constituencies of their respective states. >>> >>> Please do let me know if you have any experience working on this, or any >>> suggestions on how this information can be collected. >>> >>> Thank you! >>> >>> Sincerely, >>> Shruti Lakhtakia >>> >>> -- >>> Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more >>> about us by visiting http://datameet.org >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "datameet" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/datameet/570bafb6-783a-4313-8de4-2088e162c6c2%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/datameet/570bafb6-783a-4313-8de4-2088e162c6c2%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> >> >> -- >> -. >> Ajayakumar A >> >> -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/datameet/d493a270-aafd-43c1-a22b-904c66c84863%40googlegroups.com.
