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codefordayton / esl

A one-page web application to support discovering English As A Second Language (ESL) classes
http://codefordayton.org/esl
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Convert Location Data to JSON or KML #1

Closed dwcaraway closed 10 years ago

dwcaraway commented 10 years ago

Leigh created a map at https://mapsengine.google.com/map/u/0/edit?mid=zC9ScMhT9H4s.kMymDCCmlwEU. Need the data point information captured so that it can be rendered on the application.

raudabaugh commented 10 years ago

It might be a good idea for Leigh to post the CSV on here somewhere, maybe as a gist?

DavidEBest commented 10 years ago

There are some JS libraries for parsing CSVs. Do we want to keep things in that format for the sake of simplicity for the government folks to update, or not worry about it for the time being?

We can geocode the points using a free service like http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/geocoder/ and just update our data by hand for now.

If/when we need to geocode on the fly, Yahoo's YQL interface is pretty slick.

raudabaugh commented 10 years ago

My vote would be to go with GeoJSON, since Leaflet seems to prefer them, and Github is starting to do some cool stuff with diffing them and such ( https://github.com/blog/1772-diffable-more-customizable-maps). As far as simplicity for government folks updating, we could either point them to this service - http://geojson.io - or just build a good CSV parser. I made one in Python a while back that does Yahoo geocoding, need to find it and dust it off.

On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 12:30 PM, David Best notifications@github.comwrote:

There are some JS libraries for parsing CSVs. Do we want to keep things in that format for the sake of simplicity for the government folks to update, or not worry about it for the time being?

We can geocode the points using a free service like http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/geocoder/ and just update our data by hand for now.

If/when we need to geocode on the fly, Yahoo's YQL interface is pretty slick.

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/codefordayton/esl/issues/1#issuecomment-34348088 .

raudabaugh commented 10 years ago

Here is the CSV that Leigh made: https://gist.github.com/raudabaugh/8853334

DavidEBest commented 10 years ago

I cleaned up the data a bit and added lat/lons.

https://gist.github.com/DavidEBest/8855745

dwcaraway commented 10 years ago

@DavidEBest Can this be closed now?