Free Geolocation POI for Israel under CC0 license

Mr_Israel · August 5, 2011, 8:46am

simplegeo.com has just published their POI collection of 63 countries (including Israel) as CC0 license.

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Lastly, we’re very excited to announce that the SimpleGeo’s CC0 Places data set is now available for download at no cost. If you’d like to get your hands on 21M+ POIs that cover 63 countries, we’re ready to hand that over to you in one file. The file is about 2GB in .ZIP format, and remember, with the CC0 license, this data becomes yours – free and clear – to do whatever you want. We hope you do awesome things with it! You can download it now by clicking here.
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Source:
http://blog.simplegeo.com/2011/08/01/august-updates/

Sounds very much like a need to import those data or check if its worth a import.

Mr_Israel · August 10, 2011, 7:28am

@Dimka @Talkat?

not interesting stuff?

dimka · August 20, 2011, 3:57pm

Might be.
Right now I’m too busy, and I figured it will take too long to get into it.

dimka

Mr_Israel · October 18, 2011, 12:49pm

In the 200k POI database of just Israel are a lot of very interesting places included.
Of course we can’t just import all of them to all Israel, but you agree that it would be a wonderful enhancement for OSM Israel that is very rare of POI in some districts.

dimka · October 18, 2011, 6:22pm

I’ll download this and at least try to generate a list of POI’s in the wiki.

dimka · October 18, 2011, 8:33pm

This is the raw data:

{“geometry”: {“type”: “Point”, “coordinates”: [-95.712891, 37.09024]}, “type”: “Feature”, “id”: “SG_1j0fU4sm8fa0EtdgUWRlCQ_37.090240_-95.712891@1308163236”, “properties”: {“website”: “http://www.mtlk.com/”, “city”: “Yakum”, “name”: “MetaLink”, “country”: “IL”, “classifiers”: [{“category”: “Professional”, “type”: “Services”, “subcategory”: “Computer Services”}], “href”: “http://api.simplegeo.com/1.0/features/SG_1j0fU4sm8fa0EtdgUWRlCQ_37.090240_-95.712891@1308163236.json”, “address”: “Yakum Business Park”, “owner”: “simplegeo”, “postcode”: “60972”}}
{“geometry”: {“type”: “Point”, “coordinates”: [-95.712891, 37.09024]}, “type”: “Feature”, “id”: “SG_1wHyMIhXSYRITKbY8QPSUV_37.090240_-95.712891@1308163237”, “properties”: {“website”: “http://www.oridian.com/”, “city”: “Herzliya”, “name”: “Oridian”, “country”: “IL”, “classifiers”: [{“category”: “Professional”, “type”: “Services”, “subcategory”: “Advertising”}], “href”: “http://api.simplegeo.com/1.0/features/SG_1wHyMIhXSYRITKbY8QPSUV_37.090240_-95.712891@1308163237.json”, “address”: “3 Sapir Street”, “owner”: “simplegeo”, “postcode”: “46733”}}
{“geometry”: {“type”: “Point”, “coordinates”: [34.7595, 32.0554]}, “type”: “Feature”, “id”: “SG_3iaOFWoHk6Hb4ZLAFnx201_32.055400_34.759500@1308163237”, “properties”: {“website”: “http://www.moblica.com”, “city”: “Tel Aviv”, “name”: “Moblica”, “country”: “IL”, “classifiers”: [{“category”: “Professional”, “type”: “Services”, “subcategory”: “Computer Services”}], “href”: “http://api.simplegeo.com/1.0/features/SG_3iaOFWoHk6Hb4ZLAFnx201_32.055400_34.759500@1308163237.json”, “address”: “88 Menachem Begin Street”, “owner”: “simplegeo”, “postcode”: “67138”}}
{“geometry”: {“type”: “Point”, “coordinates”: [34.851612, 31.046051]}, “type”: “Feature”, “id”: “SG_3euCmJRhZx540v5AHy3UCJ_31.046051_34.851612@1308163236”, “properties”: {“website”: “http://www.blogtv.com/”, “city”: “Ramat Gan”, “name”: “blogTV”, “tags”: [“blogtv”, “broadcast”, “chat”, “live”], “country”: “IL”, “classifiers”: [{“category”: “Professional”, “type”: “Services”, “subcategory”: “Computer Services”}], “href”: “http://api.simplegeo.com/1.0/features/SG_3euCmJRhZx540v5AHy3UCJ_31.046051_34.851612@1308163236.json”, “address”: “30 Ben Gurion St.”, “owner”: “simplegeo”, “postcode”: “52573”}}
{“geometry”: {“type”: “Point”, “coordinates”: [34.8615, 32.3462]}, “type”: “Feature”, “id”: “SG_4QRrnekspAWcUHSYVcUBLf_32.346200_34.861500@1308163241”, “properties”: {“website”: “http://www.metrolight.com”, “city”: “Netanya”, “name”: “Metrolight”, “country”: “IL”, “classifiers”: [{“category”: “Professional”, “type”: “Services”, “subcategory”: “Research”}], “href”: “http://api.simplegeo.com/1.0/features/SG_4QRrnekspAWcUHSYVcUBLf_32.346200_34.861500@1308163241.json”, “address”: “P.O.Box 8194”, “owner”: “simplegeo”, “postcode”: “42160”}}

Not much…

Most part of the free 2GB archive consists of POIs from US, Germany and the UK.

Mr_Israel · October 18, 2011, 9:55pm

looks like there is a lot of Israel in this package, too.

Of course less than in US or Germany:

US : 17M Entities
Germany : 5M Entities
Israel : 0.2M (200K) Entities
Egypt : 0.012M (12K) Entities

Incompare of the size of country this is still a lot.
As this data includes a lot of address data it is very interesting for the future.
Even if you need to go over all of them manually to check if they make sense.

dimka · October 18, 2011, 10:04pm

Where is this information from?

I downloaded and unpacked the archive, and the size of the file for Israel was just 1Kbyte.

Mr_Israel · October 18, 2011, 10:11pm

ohhh…

I just clicked the link “44 other countries” and selected Israel.
http://www.factual.com/topic/local
Seems like this data is not changed in license. If its not included in the ZIP file.

I thought its the same kind of data like in the 2GB file.

Could be that I was wrong regarding the amount of data in the CC0 license type.
Or maybe the other data had also a license change.

dimka · October 18, 2011, 10:31pm

I think the 200K POIs dataset is not under CC0 license.