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data-library: search by source #5943

Closed matallo closed 7 years ago

matallo commented 8 years ago

current design has it like a dropdown, but they work as a free text; do we have a closed set of sources? should we have a searchbox for this?

/cc @ethervoid @iriberri @carlostallon

iriberri commented 8 years ago

We don't have a closed set of sources (it's limited, but we can add new ones each day).

A searchbox would be useful for finding the data if you know about data in general and you are like a geek of Open Data portals, but a searchbox wouldn't be useful for discovering data if you don't know what you are doing.

A complete dropdown with all the sources would be too much, so my ideas are:

a) A hybrid: dropdown with a couple suggestions of the most common sources (US Census, Natural Earth...) + a searchbox

b) Just a searchbox. For discovering, we have other filters like categories (admin. regions, cultural, historic...).

matallo commented 8 years ago

there can be a generic solution that also solves this https://github.com/CartoDB/cartodb/issues/5831

so, I'd go for "a) A hybrid: dropdown with a couple suggestions of the most common sources"

assigning to tallon, then

iriberri commented 8 years ago

Just to "support" your ideas, here's the list of sources we have atm and their "count":

(It's not totally updated with the last ~6 changes and additions, but it could be useful)

source count
Disruptive Geo 3
NOAA's NCDC 1
NYSDOT 1
NHGIS 11
MassGIS 1
Chicago Open Data 2
DataSF 5
Humanitarian Response 1
Pakistan Data Portal 1
US Census Data 1
Madrid Datos Abiertos 1
LA Bureau of Engineering 2
Portland Open Data 1
NYC Open Data 1
Valencia Datos Abiertos 2
Nixta's Null Island 1
CartoBCN 3
U.S. Geological Survey 1
US Census Data 1
Natural Earth Data 21
National Atlas 2
Data.gov 1
US Census 16
Berlin Open Data 2
GeoNetwork 2
Ayuntamiento de Madrid 1
LA City Data 1
IEM Data 2
United Nations TJK 2
NYC Open Data 3
City of Chicago 2
GDELT API 1
NRS 1
NYC Planning 6
MAGRAMA 3
NOAA's SPC 1
The Newberry Library 8
UCLA Dept. of Political Science 1
City of Melbourne 3
nobuti commented 7 years ago

There has been no activity on this issue for more several months. We are closing it. If you think this still needs to be addressed please open a new issue.