[@OKFNau] GeoJSON data format

Mon Feb 3 13:25:45 UTC 2014

Hey Mark, most of what we've got in Locate is public down to the datasource
level.

Will shoot you some info tomorrow.

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On 03/02/2014 5:04 pm, "Mark McDonald" <i at ii.net> wrote:

> 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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>> Cheers,
>>
>> Keith
>>
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