[ckan-dev] examples of GeoJson field data

Tue Jan 8 14:06:15 UTC 2013

Hi Adria,

Good spot. Can you file an issue reffing backend.csv.js on
https://github.com/okfn/recline.

Rufus

On 8 January 2013 11:32, Adrià Mercader <adria.mercader at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hi Pascal,
>
> The GeoJSON string field should be quoted and to be a valid json, the
> object representation should have double quotes. The problem is that
> the current Recline parser won't recognise the following (which is an
> issue IMO):
>
> name,geom
> Test, "{\"type\":\"Point\",\"coordinates\":[-1.1207,45.4874]}"
>
> The only way I got it working is using single quotes on the field, and
> telling recline so when loading the dataset (You can test it in
> http://explorer.datahub.io, which allows you to specify the text
> delimiter)
>
> name,geom
> Test, '{"type":"Point","coordinates":[-1.1207,45.4874]}'
>
> Unfortunately, the current CKAN integration with Recline does not
> allow defining advanced options like the text delimiter, so I'm afraid
> there isn't an easy fix around this.
>
> Perhaps Rufus has another approach that could work?
>
>
> Adrià
>
>
> On 8 January 2013 09:17,  <p.romain at cg33.fr> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> We are trying to take advantage of recline GeoJson capabilities to display
>> geographical data on our CKAN instance.
>> We transform the data from WKT to GeoJson but so far we have not been able
>> to have working examples.
>> I remember seeing some dataset using this feature but I can't find them
>> anymore.
>>
>> A simple example with only one fied
>>
>> {"type":"Point","coordinates":[-1.1207,45.4874]}
>>
>> A more advanced example
>>
>> 3301,ARCACHON,XCAN01,{"type":"Polygon","coordinates":[[[-1.2043,44.6385],[-1.2014,44.6394],[-1.1964,44.6407],[-1.1959,44.6408],[-1.1952,44.6408],[-1.1946,44.6409],[-1.1944,44.6409]]]}
>>
>> On of the issue is the separator of fields normaly the comma which is part
>> of the GeoJson syntax.
>>
>> Could you point me with example of resources using GeoJson fields in csv
>> files ?
>>
>>
>> Best,
>> Pascal
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