Cyprus Citizen Service Centers, Citizen Centers and Post offices

A dataset containing spatial and attribute data for Citizen and Services Centres, and Post Offices in Cyprus. 

Zone extent: 

The extents of the dataset refer to the Republic of Cyprus.

Corridnate System: CGRS93

Schema:

City: Text

Address: Text

Name: Text

Postal Code: Integer

Summer only: Integer

Service Type: Text

Cyprus CSC and Post Offices:

That data for all citizens and service center, and post offices was adopted from the official governmental websites[1], where lists containing different services facilities are available in PDF format. The list contained data named: Name, address, working hours, if is it KE.PO. (post office that offers extra services related to the citizen's services), if it opperates in summer or only.  There are separate PDF files for each district and each type of ownership.

Data Preparation:

We processed these PDF files further to obtain coordinates based on addresses and postcodes. We convert all PDF files to Excel files to ease adding more fields and combining data in one main file. Then, using Python in Jupiter notes, we obtained the coordinates for each address (Longitude and Latitude) using an API key from OpenStreetMap. However, a manual review of all the points was needed as some addresses provided initially on the PDF were not accurate or were not written appropriately. So, some points were edited manually and directly in QGIS to their accurate addresses.