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, 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

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

@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}
}