How should I go about efficiently compiling the data to map the locations of all the businesses within a given city or town? Are there any free online resources that offer searching businesses by geography and downloading their listings as tabular data which could be geocoded?  At a minimum I would just need the business name and address. The project would be in New York and the business data needs to be mapped in ArcMap.
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This question dovetails with this post on .  I am familiar with some of larger, paid-for business registry's like  and .  While the detailed information their business listings database include (like # of employees, annual sales, industry code, etc) is fantastic, if you are on a limited budget, sometimes the cost of purchasing the data outweighs the value you can get from it.  If you have geocoding capabilities in house, one could potentially create a reasonable surrogate by spatially-enabling (geocoding) a publicly available business listing on your own.    If you were looking to take on this type of project, where would you start your research? Do you know of US agencies at a State or National level that maintain this type of information, AND are publicly available for download or minimal purchase?
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What are the sources of excellent geo-location data as possessed by Google Maps ?   I am wondering that, even with large amount of volunteer work involved, why is OSM data not comparable to theirs in terms of quality ?
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Does anyone know if it's possible to do a 'one to many' spatial join based on distance in QGIS?  The "Join Attributes By Location" under ->Vector->Data Management Tools is very limited...  Just to be clear, below is how it's done in ArcGIS.
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I want to make game more realistic, for that I need a city. So, I decided to take New York City, as it can be seen through Google Maps with Street View, 3d view and much more and will help me a lot to make realistic game.   So, my simple question is: Can I use the whole New York City in my game and publish it commercially?
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I've seen a few options for indoor GIS platforms such as Google's indoor mapping, implementations of OpenLayers, Open Street Map, and many other plausible solutions. There's even a post on here asking a very similar question to mine but all the answers involved how to provide locations to users.  For my use I don't care to map where the user is but rather simply provide a usable map of our building and in my ideal world I would be able to provide static directions (think Google Maps without location for our building). Is there anything out there that can help us achieve this? I'm willing to learn as long as there's documentation.
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I am trying to find the shapefiles for postcode sector and districts in the UK. Specifically inside London. I know I can go and pay for these but I only really need to use them once. I want to generate my own mapping tiles with the shapes on one version of the tiles. Allowing me to show all the postcode boundaries without overloading the JavaScript on the client side.   I could "redraw" some of shapes myself (tracing from others) but would be great if there were some shapefiles already out there.   Can anyone help?
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I have a spreadsheet full of addresses to geocode in ArcMap 10.  I've added the spreadsheet to the map, then started to geocode them via the context menu's "Geocode addresses" item.  Many were matched automatically, and most of the unmatched I've been able to resolve within the Interactive Rematch dialog. But I have a handful of addresses where I get no result at all.  I can, however, locate these points on Google Maps, and I can get the latitude and longitude that way.  How can I enter that data into the table to locate the missing points?  I have tried editing the data and putting the lat/lon values into the X and Y columns, (via Edit Features -> Start Editing, then Open Attribute Table on the context menu).  But when I Flash the point, I don't see it.  The lat &amp; lon are consistent with the other data points on the map (i.e., not swapped, and using the correct sign).  How can I add the points to the table?
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I'd like to automate downloading point shapefile data from . There is a link which can be used to download the data, as provided below:    Is it possible to directly download this within R?  Other Comments:   I don't want Decennial Census, or ACS (or else I'd use totalcensus or tidycensus).  I already have the  (CSV).  Whilst this question is about using Census On the Map, is there an R package to do so?
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I'm creating a map with specific information (name, DOB, etc) to be displayed for a street address, which is mapped to an exact lat and long. Problem I'm realizing is that for items such as apartment buildings, this isn't going to work within CartoDB using the Simple Visualization Wizard.   Any suggestions in CartoDB to display multiple fields of the same type in a click/hover window?
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I have several records from a survey and would like to show flow map from places mentioned in the survey. I have all places mentioned georeferenced and some records mentioned no places and others mentioned up to 16 places. I made a graphic so I can make myself clearer.
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I am working on software that is very ESRI oriented, but a future version will likely not be using ESRI software. It uses Shapefiles and Geodatabases. I'm planning on getting all of my data to Shapefiles in anticipation for future versions of the software that will likely be on Android and other mobile devices. It appears that Shapefiles are the most common datatype for features in the open-source GIS world, but what are the others, and what benefits do they bring? I'm familiar with GeoJSON and KML, but I'm sure there are others.  I would like to know all options, but I am particularly interested in dataset types best suited for storing on mobile devices (the data must be accessible without an internet connection).
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How do I convert MapInfo TAB and/or MIF files to SHP using only free tools or ArcGIS itself?   I've not had much luck trying to do this in the past and I don't want to have to shell out for the ArcGIS Data Interoperability extension which seems to be the 'official' way to go about this.
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The post  listed resources for finding a GIS job (as in a full-time or contract position).  What resources are available for finding GIS projects or consultancy work? eg:   a small project to integrate a map into an existing site; incorporate an address-search into a workflow; migrate legacy GIS code to a new format;   These are one-off tasks which require a GIS professional, but which don't entail a full-time position. How do you find the right people for the task, or find the task if you're the right person? All the online resources I've seen are aimed at "jobs".
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I am searching for building/property data which include building height, building area, lot size, and building type classifications(preferably as complete as possible). I am working on an Earthquake Model for highly urbanized locations, especially those around fault lines.
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I have a csv file that is 133mb in size and has over 1.3 million lines of data.  Each line of data has its own lat/long and I was wondering what would be the best way to display those points based off the lat/longs in ArcGIS Desktop 10 and ultimately turn it into a point shapefile?  So far I have tried the "Make XY Event Layer" tool but that keeps failing...  ERROR 000212: Cannot create XY event source Failed to execute (MakeXYEventLayer).  The csv file is properly formatted and the lat/long fields are numeric so I have no idea why it keeps crashing.  Here is what the first 2 lines of my CSV look like, the first line is what should be the header:  "LAT","LONG","CUSTOMER_MASTER_ID","STORE_NBR","TRANSACTION_DT","SKU_DIVISION_ID","SKU_DEPARTMENT_ID","SKU_CLASS_ID","SKU_CATEGORY_ID","SKU_NBR","SALES_AMT" "32.363544","-110.969778","2000000792627","2940","8/11/2010","2060","3920","5120","84021","5127866","13.99"   Any ideas?
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I'm a long-term user of ESRI software, and I now have a need to use free and open source software.   I've been reading about OpenLayers, PostgreSQL, PostGIS, GeoServer and MapServer but I can't find a good overview stating what each product does, why it's needed, and how they all fit together.  For example,  and  both list a bunch of products but don't give enough information for me to decide which ones are relevant.  In ArcGIS, I would use the following:   file geodatabase or ArcSDE geodatabase for data storage ArcMap desktop to edit the data and compile the map document ArcGIS Server to create web services ArcGIS Server JavaScript API to create the end-user maps from the web services   What are the equivalent FOSS products?
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I am currently looking at the various libraries that I can use to show a map in my custom Android App. I have found several like Mapsforge, OSMDroid, ArcGIS runtime for Android, Google Maps for Android and so on. I'm sure that I am missing a few.   Is there a comparison chart somewhere about the differences in functionalities and pros and cons of each one?   If there isn't one, we could make this question community wiki, to serve alongside  &amp; .