CartoDB support

[peterdesmet]

CartoDB is increasingly being used to store, access and visualize geospatial data in the cloud. As recorded in this issue, there is a need for CKAN-CartoDB integration, but with some differences how far this integration should go.

• I personally would like to be able to add a resource to CKAN via a CartoDB link and ideally have a preview of the data (using the CartoDB API). We have other resource types than CartoDB, so the default service-provider features should remain.
• The original feature request by @bu1g is a step further, with CKAN controlling CartoDB as a datastore.

@acouch has developed CartoDB integration for DKAN, replacing the native datastore with CartoDB, but that code cannot be ported to CKAN as the codebase is different (see comment).

Any idea what needs to be done to tackle this?

Note: I'm still new to CKAN and not sure if this is functionality the ckan-service-provider can provide. If not, to which repository should I add this issue?

[seanh]

@peterdesmet I suggest moving the discussion to here https://github.com/ckan/ideas-and-roadmap

I think a CartoDB-importer could be written on top of ckan-service-provider like datapusher is, or it could just be written standalone, either way it seems like a new project on its own.