[ckan-discuss] Next steps on datacatalogs.org?

Tue Oct 4 08:57:41 BST 2011

On 4 Oct 2011, at 08:24, Martin Alvarez-Espinar wrote:
> Another one more familiar to me: 'Barcelona'
> as city [1] and 'Barcelona' as province [2]. Although the city is the
> capital (it may be used to represent the marker on the map) the
> province covers a large territory. But, the most important is that
> both, the city and the province have different governments. This is
> why we used Geonames to represent univocal spatial references.

Searching for “Barcelona, Spain” and “Province of Barcelona, Spain” yields different results in Google Maps, so I suppose with some care on the data entry side even a simple text field plus geocoding API could be sufficient.

> The form to add new catalogs uses a Geonames-based service which may
> be used to enrich the input in datacatalogs.org. I'm talking about the
> field 'Location" in the form [3], which supports auto-completion.

Yeah, some sort of autocompletion is of course even better.

Best,
Richard

> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Martin
> 
> [1] http://www.geonames.org/3128760/
> [2] http://www.geonames.org/3128759/
> [3] http://datos.fundacionctic.org/sandbox/catalog/manage/new