What data can be extracted from google maps? It seemed to me that I can just poll information about places and geography through their api. I'm looking to pull down a map of a city from google maps and then make my own map from it in order to throw that data into a game engine. A brute force method would be extracting the bitmap images and then processing that information, but is there some standard of geographical information I should explore? And if so, can I get that information from google maps?
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- So far the easiest solution in the data extraction industry is to use a Google Maps Web Scraping Template. Google Maps web scraping template is an advanced feature of the industry-leading free data extractor Octoparse. They built dozens of templates covering all popular websites, which are ready to use preformatted crawlers. You can use it to extract the business name, reviews, ratings, address, websites, phone number, and open hours, etc.
- If you think the template doesn’t meet your needs, you can build your own crawler to extract other information.
- Other advanced solutions to extract google maps data include using open-source projects on Github, using python framework/library, use a web scraper chrome extension, etc. You can check out this article 5 Free Google Maps Data Extractors
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