[@OKFNau] GeoJSON data format

Mon Feb 3 05:39:19 UTC 2014

Thanks all for your help!

Keith - data in Maps Engine would be great but I'm after "public" data,
where the table itself needs to be public (not just the map or layer).  Do
you know of any in SLIP that you could point me to?

On 2 February 2014 13:02, Keith Moss <keithamoss at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>
> Broadly, yes, I love it. After years of enduring shapefiles and GML it's
> just an utter pleasure to work with. The availability of parsers and
> renderers is widespread, it's human readable, easy to generate, and even
> has nifty integrations like GitHub's automatic "upload GeoJSON, receive
> map" feature.
>
> As far as sources of data go. Three thoughts off the top of my head:
>
> 1) SLIP Future
> SLIP[1] is WA Government's spatial data platform with APIs for accessing
> spatial data from 2,400 odd datasets. We're in the process of building a
> new version on Google's Map Engine platform that will support a larger
> range of APIs and, by default, speaks (Geo)JSON.
>
> But you're already aware of that, Mark :)
>
>
> 2) GovPond
> GovPond[2] only turns up 15 results for a search for JSON, and only half
> of them are Glenorchy Council!
>
> From memory the BOM provides JSON feeds for a bunch of its products as
> well.
>
> If you feel like diving into Google a search for "json site:.gov.au -site:
> data.gov.au -site:data.nsw.gov.au" might yield a few interesting nuggets.
>
>
> 3) If you're specifically after local govt data try asking on the Local
> Govt GIS groups. e.g. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/lggis
>
>
> [1] slip.landgate.wa.gov.au
> [2] http://govpond.org/index.php
>
>
>
> On 31 January 2014 08:39, Mark McDonald McDonald <macca.d at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm interested in finding out if anyone here has been involved in any
>> projects using GeoJSON data.  I'm looking to do a bit of advocacy work for
>> the standard (including some demos) and the situation is pretty dire on
>> data.gov.au, who only has one provider: a few feeds from Glenorchy City
>> Council.  I'm looking for some more.
>>
>> Does anyone know of any other sources for local geo data in this
>> standard?  Has anyone here had any experience with the standard?  Either
>> positive or negative?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Mark
>>
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>
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>
> Keith
>
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