How can I get all churches in the USA

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I'm looking to get info on all churches across the US. Specifically, I'd love to get:

and any other info I can get.

Thanks

By "church", do you mean Christian churches only (some people distinguish other houses of worship as mosques, synagogues, etc)? If so, there might be an organization that attempts to maintain a complete list. — user3856, Sep 19 '18 at 17:19
Yes @BarryCarter, I meant Christian churches only. Do you perchance know of any such organization? — tr33hous, Oct 2 '18 at 20:44
thank you for the rising of this thread and offering ideas .BTW - isnt it possible to go and use overpass-turbo.eu - for a search? — zero, May 10 at 20:07

Hack-R · Accepted Answer · 2018-09-16 04:48:32Z

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I would use the Open StreetMap data with Nominatom for your base file.

This should get you #1 and you can get #2 just by text mining their titles.

For #3 I believe the closest you'll get is just to use the most recent available data.

For #4 I think you'd need to do original data scraping from the Internet - at least to get their websites (I'm not sure on this one, actually).

answered Sep 16 '18 at 4:48

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just to expand a bit, you can get a list of all "places of worship" by downloading bulk osm files from geofabrik.de and then using use osmfilter or osmosis to select only certain tags, for example: wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity=place_of_worship . More details --> opendata.stackexchange.com/a/12430/1511
– philshem ♦
Sep 16 '18 at 19:18
hello Hack-R and philshem thank you for the rising of this thread and offering ideas .BTW - isnt it possible to go and use overpass-turbo.eu - for a search?
– zero
May 10 at 20:07

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