GeoJSON data package example

[rufuspollock]

This is very straightforward but would be nice to provide a proper example.

Would be nice to use some real world data - where doe we get example data from?

• https://github.com/john-sandall/geocouncil
• crime data
• AfTerFibre e.g. https://github.com/stevesong/afterfibre-kml/blob/master/Kenya/KDN/KDN.geojson

Suggest we want, several examples:

• local data "in the repo"
• "remote" data (like we did with topojson)
• [optional] "inline data" - this would be kind of cute but is not essential

Would probably push these to ex-{pkgname} in https://github.com/datasets as per https://github.com/datasets/ex-topojson

[peterdesmet]

If it helps, I created a very basic geojson data package at https://github.com/peterdesmet/traffic-signs-hansbeke.

I'm still struggling with how to define the resource properties though (see this issue).

Note: the data package viewer correctly obtains the number of lines in the data, but does not render anything: http://data.okfn.org/tools/view?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgit.luolix.top%2Fpeterdesmet%2Ftraffic-signs-hansbeke#data

[rufuspollock]

@peterdesmet that's great - issue with the preview is addressed in #110 which should be easy to fix ... (and is needed!)

[peterdesmet]

Thanks. Than the question remains how to describe properties of a geojson (cf. schema for csv): peterdesmet/traffic-signs-hansbeke#11

[rufuspollock]

@peterdesmet could you advise what your use case is for describing the properties, for example will you be processing the data in some way that requires you to know the types of the property fields?

Also would you be up for improving the Geodata tutorial - https://github.com/okfn/data.okfn.org/blob/master/doc/publish-geodata.md - for example, by listing the geo data package you've just made.

[rufuspollock]

Just done a simple example "Geo" Data Package with GeoJSON - https://github.com/datasets/ex-geojson

[rufuspollock]

FIXED. We'll leave the remote example for the time being.

[rufuspollock]

@peterdesmet preview is now done - see #110 and your data package can be seen at http://data.okfn.org/data/peterdesmet/traffic-signs-hansbeke (please given any feedback in in issue #110 not here ...)

[peterdesmet]

@rgrp, will try to submit my feedback in the appropriate issues

• Reply to use case for describing properties (comment above): will answer at Geo "profile" for Data Package datapackage#86
• Reply to improving geodata tutorial: sure, will do a pull request
• Reply to how preview (Preview geojson sensibly in datapackage viewer stuff #110) looks like: great!

Question: how was my data package added to the registry. I assume it's a community maintained list?

[rufuspollock]

@peterdesmet the registry runs off https://github.com/datasets/registry - there's a python script there that scrapes all data packages found on github (still have to run the script by hand atm ...)

[sabas]

What about converting NaturalEarthData (http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/ ), for example country borders?
Topojson example https://github.com/sabas/sabas.github.io/blob/master/topojson/naturalearth_countries.topojson

[rufuspollock]

@sabas this would be great - I would actually suggest taking a look / adding issues to the core datasets registry https://github.com/datasets/registry/issues as natural earth stuff should probably go in there.