I'm looking to get info on all churches across the US. Specifically, I'd love to get:
- Their address
- Denomination
- Active/Not
- Contact Info (website, email, phone)
and any other info I can get.
Thanks
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Related: opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/10840/… – user4293 Sep 16 '18 at 7:50
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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. – Barry Carter Sep 19 '18 at 17:19
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Yes @BarryCarter, I meant Christian churches only. Do you perchance know of any such organization? – tr33hous Oct 2 '18 at 20:44
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).
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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
osmfilterorosmosisto 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
