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Museums (GEOJSON)

Updated 6 months ago

NHB (National Heritage Board)
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Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the data catalogue of this dataset. For a complete guide on query parameters and syntax, please refer to the API documentation

import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_800f80592dc0b8eb0c784b1122dad45e"
url = "https://api-open.data.gov.sg/v1/public/api/datasets/" + dataset_id + "/poll-download"
        
response = requests.get(url)
json_data = response.json()
if json_data['code'] != 0:
    print(json_data['errMsg'])
    exit(1)

url = json_data['data']['url']
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.text)

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

National Heritage Board. (2018). Museums (GEOJSON) (2024) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved November 22, 2024 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_800f80592dc0b8eb0c784b1122dad45e/view

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Created on

26 Dec 2018

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Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

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NHB (National Heritage Board)

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