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RathnavelRahul/tamil-nadu-government-bus-images

Tamil Nadu Government Bus Images Dataset A curated collection of 1,358 images of Tamil Nadu government buses and transport infrastructure, sourced from Wikimedia Commons with verified free/open licenses. Dataset Description This dataset contains images related to Tamil Nadu's government bus transport system, including: TNSTC (Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation) buses SETC (State Express Transport Corporation) buses MTC (Metropolitan Transport Corporation… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/RathnavelRahul/tamil-nadu-government-bus-images.

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Tamil Nadu Government Bus Images Dataset

A curated collection of 1,358 images of Tamil Nadu government buses and transport infrastructure, sourced from Wikimedia Commons with verified free/open licenses.

Dataset Description

This dataset contains images related to Tamil Nadu's government bus transport system, including:

—TNSTC (Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation) buses
—SETC (State Express Transport Corporation) buses
—MTC (Metropolitan Transport Corporation, Chennai) buses
—Bus stands, depots, and transport infrastructure across Tamil Nadu

Sources

All images are sourced from Wikimedia Commons — a repository of freely usable media files. Each image has been verified to have a free/open license.

Use Cases

—Bus type classification — Train models to identify TNSTC vs SETC vs MTC buses
—Color detection — Classify bus colors (red, blue, green, etc.)
—Route identification — Detect route numbers and destination boards
—Object detection — Detect buses in complex scenes
—Transport infrastructure analysis — Analyze bus stands and depots

Dataset Structure

Features

Feature	Type	Description
`image`	Image	The bus/transport image
`title`	string	Original filename from Wikimedia Commons
`bus_type`	string	Type of bus: TNSTC, SETC, MTC, TN_Government, or unknown
`bus_color`	string	Detected primary color of the bus
`description`	string	Image description from Wikimedia Commons
`author`	string	Original photographer/creator
`license`	string	License type (CC BY-SA 4.0, CC BY 3.0, CC0, etc.)
`license_url`	string	URL to the full license text
`source_url`	string	Link to the original Wikimedia Commons page
`date`	string	Date the image was created/uploaded
`width`	int	Image width in pixels
`height`	int	Image height in pixels

Bus Type Distribution

Type	Count
TN_Government	934
Unknown	324
TNSTC	51
MTC	45
SETC	4

License Distribution

License	Count
CC BY-SA 4.0	634
CC BY-SA 3.0	435
CC BY 3.0	62
GODL-India	54
Public domain	46
CC BY 2.0	34
CC BY-SA 2.0	25
CC0	23
CC BY 4.0	19
Other CC/GFDL	26

Usage

python

from datasets import load_dataset

# Load the full dataset
dataset = load_dataset("RathnavelRahul/tamil-nadu-government-bus-images")

# Access a sample
sample = dataset["train"][0]
print(sample["bus_type"])  # e.g., "TNSTC"
sample["image"].show()     # Display the image

# Filter by bus type
tnstc_buses = dataset["train"].filter(lambda x: x["bus_type"] == "TNSTC")
print(f"TNSTC images: {len(tnstc_buses)}")

License

This dataset is released under CC BY-SA 4.0, which is the most restrictive license present in the collection. Individual images may have more permissive licenses (CC0, CC BY, etc.) — check the license field for each image.

All images were sourced from Wikimedia Commons and are freely reusable under their respective Creative Commons licenses.

Attribution

—Images sourced from Wikimedia Commons
—Individual photographer credits are preserved in the author field
—Please attribute individual images per their specific license terms

Citation

bibtex

@dataset{tn_bus_images_2025,
  title={Tamil Nadu Government Bus Images Dataset},
  author={RathnavelRahul},
  year={2025},
  publisher={Hugging Face},
  url={https://huggingface.co/datasets/RathnavelRahul/tamil-nadu-government-bus-images}
}