Summary

In this repository, you will find "public bookcases" exported from website: https://www.boite-a-lire.com/

Note: boite-a-lire.com publish those data under CC-BY-NC-SA license.

Those bookcases are mainly located in France and french speaking countries. You can display them in OsmAnd, JOSM, uMap etc.

View all bookcases (OSM + boite-a-lire.com)

Map of OSM bookcases and 2022-09-17 dataset

In this map:

• OSM bookcases are displayed in green on zoom 14+ with 1 hour cache
• boite-a-lire.com bookcases are displayed in red

View only boite-a-lire.com

You can view all bookcases from those data here:

Date	Bookcases	Map
2022-09-17	8571	Map with 2022-09-17 data
2020-09-28	6740	Map with 2020-09-28 data
2019-12-01	5551	Map with 2019-12-01 data
2019-09-07	5206	Map with 2019-09-07 data
2019-05-27	4795	Map with 2019-05-27 data

Repo hierarchy

• YYYY-MM-DD: date I export data from the website.
  • bookcase.gpx: favourite file to use in OsmAnd.
  • bookcase.geojson: file to use in JOSM.

WARNING !!! DO NOT IMPORT IN OPENSTREETMAP !!!

⚠️ DO NOT IMPORT THOSE DATA IN OPENSTREETMAP !!! ⚠️

Those "supposed bookcases" needs to be checked by a survey in real life, on the field.

You need to go on each "supposed bookcases", check if it exists, then you can add this bookcase in OSM.

How to use data ?

The main goal of those data is to find potential bookcases. So you can grab/exchange some books. You may also want to use those data to improve OpenStreetMap. But you need to check if those bookcases exists in real life before adding it in OpenStreetMap

With OsmAnd ?

NB: i do not recommand to import the whole file "bookcase.gpx" because OsmAnd will become lagguy. Instead use the gpx in "Régions Françaises" folder.

1. Download bookcase.gpx from the latest export
2. Copy bookcase.gpx to your device
3. Open OsmAnd on your device
4. Go to Favorites
5. Use the button + (import button)
6. Select file bookcase.gpx
7. It's done, bookcases are displayed on the map

With JOSM ?

1. Download bookcase.gpx from the latest export
2. Use button Open File in JOSM
3. Select file bookcase.gpx
4. It's done, bookcase are displayed on the map

How to extrack data ?

Extract data from web site

1. Visit https://www.boite-a-lire.com/
2. Wait until the map is fully loaded
3. Save the web page on your desktop and open it in your editor
4. Search for "var json" and keep only these lines
5. Copy these lines in the file "webPageToGeojson.js" (follow the template)
6. Run the script in your browser devtools (or maybein nodejs)
7. Copy the result in a geojson file

Filter bookcase by french region

Prerequisites

• JOSM with plugin UtilPlugin2

1. Open the geojson in JOSM
2. Import region from file assets/georef-france-region.geojson
3. Select a region and merge it in bookcase layer
4. Be sure your region is select
5. Press Alt+Maj+I to select all bookcases inside the region
6. Copy/paster these bookcase in a new layer Ctr+C / Ctrl+Alt+V
7. Delete the region contour
8. Save the layer as a new geojson file with region name

Stats

Date	Bookcases	Bookcase without description
2022-09-17	8571	1356
2020-09-28	6740	1093
2019-12-01	5551	919
2019-09-07	5206	842
2019-05-27	4795	764

Stats by region

Region	2019-12-01	2022-09-17
Total	5551	8756
Duplicates		185
Uniques		8571
Out France Metro		343
France métro	5291	8228
Nouvelle Aquitaine	871	1307
Ile de France	671	1050
Auvergne Rhone-Alpes	646	1174
Occitanie	436	736
Grand Est	448	673
Hauts de France	361	565
Pays de la Loire	361	519
Bretagne	359	504
Bourgogne Franche-Comte	288	437
Normandie	311	430
Centre Val de Loire	300	412
PACA	240	412
Corse	9	9