[wdmmg-dev] Mark's AidData

Thu Jun 16 15:04:04 UTC 2011

Hi Friedrich,

I think that sounds like it'd be really cool. Maybe it would be easiest to
talk about this - my knowledge of OS is quite limited.

I installed OpenSpending a while ago on my laptop and it works OK after
quite a bit of head-scratching - I think I pulled the Uganda data in - but
a) it gave Error 500 when you clicked on a dataset (or spending or
recipients)
b) I couldn't work out how to do visualisations
so I got frustrated (mostly because I don't know Python) and gave up. In
retrospect it was probably because the CSV mapping was wrong.

I'll probably try and do a bit more work on it tonight, let me know when you
want to have a chat about it.

I think a good place to start would be: how difficult would it be for OS to
pull IATI-XML data in directly itself? Or would we have to go via iati2csv?

Cheers
Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: friedrich.lindenberg at gmail.com [mailto:friedrich.lindenberg at gmail.com]
On Behalf Of Friedrich Lindenberg
Sent: 16 June 2011 14:50
To: wdmmg-dev at lists.okfn.org; Mark Brough
Subject: Mark's AidData

Hi Mark,

I just showed your IATI mapping app to Rufus and he's as excited about
it as I am. We're just wondering: why don't we collaborate on this,
put the cleaned (regions, sectors) data in OpenSpending and then try
to base mapping apps around that? It would be fairly easy to do and
allow you to get the aggregation API and search things that might be
really useful? I remember you telling me you even had installed
OpenSpending - how did that go?

- Friedrich