Develop a Way To Retrieve Location Data for Each Store

[maxmagee]

In order to populate the map with store locations, we need location data for those stores. The address data can be found on the website. For the mapping software, we need latitude an longitude coordinates though.

[maxmagee]

The end goal of this is to have something in this relative shape for the locations: { id, name, location: { city, state, street, zip } }

• [x] Read data into js object from website
• [x] Save data into a .csv file.
• [x] Remove or massage problematic records.
• [x] Process the data using a geolocation service such as tamu.edu
• [x] Possibly convert it to JSON notation for future static and networked retrieval.

[maxmagee]

There appear to be some edge cases in the data. Also, I might need to re-shape the data for the geolocation service.

[maxmagee]

• Created a web scraper that parsed address data of every location on each state's page.
• Converted that parsed data into a CSV file formatted to be used by the TAMU geolocation service.
• Piped the CSV into the TAMU geolocation service.
• The service returned a new CSV file that contained the LAT and LONG coordinates for each location.
• Removed extra columns I didn't need.
• Used csvtojson package to convert that CSV to a JSON array of location objects.

I then likely want to store this information in a database to be read in later. That's for a different issue though. This is now finished.