Austrian prisons: where are they?

Hello

According to Justizanstalten

There are 28 establishments in Austria where prisoners are held, taking into account the psychiatric units. Prisons are everything where human beings are imprisoned.

With the help of @joost_schouppe Où sont les prisons ? Belgique - #9 by joost_schouppe, the Belgium prison system on OSM was updated. I kindly ask if the Austrian group could help with this endeavor.

I do not know how to extract the capacity and date of opening from text using NLP algorithms, thus, the columns are missing. If any can help with advice, it would be great.

Cheers.
SLOGAN: Let’s bring prisons closer together… :grin:

Here is my data

idx name address opened capacity latitude longitude
0 Justizanstalt Eisenstadt 7000 Eisenstadt Wiener Straße 9a -1 -1 47.84382395 16.50727029833193
1 Justizanstalt Klagenfurt 9020 Klagenfurt Purtscherstraße 2 -1 -1 46.6275158 14.306757017032673
2 Forensisch-therapeutisches Zentrum Göllersdorf 2013 Göllersdorf Mühlbachgasse 1 -1 -1 48.4944246 16.121762245661806
3 Justizanstalt Gerasdorf 2731 St. Egyden Puchbergerstr. 1 -1 -1 47.7808299 16.074103305571693
4 Justizanstalt Hirtenberg 2552 Hirtenberg Leobersdorferstraße 16 -1 -1 47.929396499999996 16.179905658563605
5 Justizanstalt Korneuburg 2100 Korneuburg Landesgerichtsplatz 1 -1 -1 48.34577590000001 16.32255201051072
6 Justizanstalt Krems 3500 Krems Kasernstraße 9 -1 -1 48.4087852 15.5944718
7 Justizanstalt Schwarzau 2625 Schwarzau Wechselbundesstraße 23-24 -1 -1 47.7304709 16.1671915
8 Justizanstalt Sonnberg 2020 Sonnberg Schlossallee 1 -1 -1 48.53843035 16.061426551785985
9 Justizanstalt St. Pölten 3100 St. Pölten Andreas Hofer Straße 3 -1 -1 48.2048218 15.616855311479636
10 Justizanstalt Stein 3500 Stein Steiner Landstraße 4 -1 -1 48.4060377 15.587059313078674
11 Justizanstalt Wiener Neustadt 2700 Wiener Neustadt Maximiliangasse 3 -1 -1 47.8076624 16.236793996298708
12 Forensisch-therapeutisches Zentrum Asten 4481 Asten Technologiestraße 5 -1 -1 48.22577225 14.409444153020196
13 Justizanstalt Garsten 4451 Garsten Am Platzl 1 -1 -1 48.0204014 14.406934226293991
14 Justizanstalt Linz 4020 Linz Pochestraße 9 -1 -1 48.30493215 14.292323647881354
15 Justizanstalt Ried im Innkreis 4910 Ried im Innkreis Bahnhofstraße 56 -1 -1 48.20473295 13.487136086697827
16 Justizanstalt Suben 4975 Suben Kirchenplatz 1 -1 -1 48.412411250000005 13.429828933406885
17 Justizanstalt Wels 4600 Wels Hamerlingstraße 1 -1 -1 48.15726585 14.018828991910706
18 Justizanstalt Salzburg 5412 Puch bei Hallein Urstein Nord 73 -1 -1 47.73992235 13.084622046739353
19 Justizanstalt Graz-Jakomini 8010 Graz Conrad von Hötzendorf Straße 43 -1 -1 47.0605241 15.446647825272164
20 Justizanstalt Graz-Karlau 8020 Graz Herrgottwiesgasse 50 -1 -1 47.0549526 15.42936948872093
21 Justizanstalt Leoben 8700 Leoben Dr. Hanns Groß-Straße 9 -1 -1 47.37689265 15.105595303452962
22 Justizanstalt Innsbruck 6010 Innsbruck Völser Straße 63 -1 -1 47.248810649999996 11.352502367623494
23 Justizanstalt Feldkirch 6800 Feldkirch Graf Hugo Wuhrgang 2 -1 -1 47.2360014 9.593637252246404
24 Forensisch-therapeutisches Zentrum Wien-Favoriten 1100 Wien Hardtmuthgasse 42 -1 -1 48.1699616 16.3726576
25 Forensisch-therapeutisches Zentrum Wien-Mittersteig 1050 Wien Mittersteig 25 -1 -1 48.18926665 16.361261379215822
26 Justizanstalt Wien-Josefstadt 1082 Wien Wickenburggasse 18-20 -1 -1 48.2136402 16.3544349
27 Justizanstalt Wien-Simmering 1110 Wien Kaiser-Ebersdorfer-Straße 297 -1 -1 48.15994345 16.473275402897315

Here’s an Overpass query that shows all prisons (according to OSM) in Austria:

According to Justizanstalten, we are not allowed to use the data as it is subject to copyright, see their imprint. :wink:

What exactly is the approach? You say that there are “28 establishments in Austria where prisoners are held”. I can tell you that there are 47 objects in OpenStreetMap Austria.
I can also tell you what the difference is. :slight_smile:

You forgot the 15 “Polizeianhaltezentren” and the “Schubhaftzentrum” in Vordernberg in your calculation.
This leaves a difference of three.

  1. Justizanstalt Klagenfurt - Außenstelle Rottenstein in St. Georgen am Längsee is missing in your list (but available in OSM)
  2. Strafvollzugsanstalt Graz Aussenstelle Lankowitz Gutshof near Köflach is missing in your list (but available in OSM)
  3. And there is one with disused=yes in OSM: Way: 185816880 | OpenStreetMap

Therefore, I would say we are complete or what do you say?

P.S.: @skunk Your overpass query is wrong. (Error: line 9: parse error: Invalid parameter for print: "+"). This one is corrected: overpass turbo

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In general all the external sites are missing, like for example Way: ‪Gregorhof‬ (‪86596178‬) | OpenStreetMap

capacity / start_date doesn’t seem to be documented or used for prisons until now
amenity=prison | Tags | OpenStreetMap Taginfo

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btw. it seems we have to revert some changes where you have removed correct wikidata entries and changed names that already had corresponding alt_names

@mcliquid any idea how to extract data on the date of opening and capacity automatically? Could it be integrated into OSM?

I wonder how the data on prisons were incorporated into OSM in general?

For example, for this prison Way: ‪Gregorhof‬ (‪86596178‬) | OpenStreetMap, where does the data come from?

from:

https://www.justiz.gv.at/ja_hirtenberg/justizanstalt-hirtenberg-aussenstelle-muenchendorf.2c94848544ac82a60144d481ee300e08.de.html

The data was added by local mappers.

I have to correct myself a little bit: there are quite a few prisons all over the world, that apparently already have a value for capicity (or start_date) for many years, but the combinations are seemingly still too rare for it to show up in taginfo

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@joost_schouppe did it for Belgium

Obviously, Belgium has an open data set for this. Austria does not.
But you are free to submit a request to the official body for the release of the data. Please make sure that you state that the data may be published in accordance with the ODbL. This is decisive for the entry in OpenStreetMap.