Re: [datameet] API for Bangalore
On 2 March 2014 13:13, Thejesh GN i...@thejeshgn.com wrote: On Mar 1, 2014 7:59 PM, Gautam John gkj...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Gora Mohanty g...@mimirtech.com wrote: idea of having a way to get data from the Excel files, and other sources, on data.gov.in and other places, and providing real API-based access, and have some thoughts on this. Should we discuss this here, or take it offline. Wouldn't something like CKAN work? http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/api/index.html I had not checked the CKAN in a long time. It looks very interesting. It doesn't say anything about GIS part. I am very interested in GIS. I will probably install over the weekend and let group explore. We have extensively used GIS with GeoDjango. While GIS is doable, maybe we should agree upon what the primary purpose of the site should be. What I thought that you were proposing was a site that acts as a central location where data from multiple Indian data sources are accumulated, and provided to users via an API. While we are also interested in GIS, visualisation, and reporting, to my mind that should be a secondary focus for this site. Regards, Gora -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups datameet group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: [datameet] API for Bangalore
On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Gora Mohanty g...@mimirtech.com wrote: On 2 March 2014 13:13, Thejesh GN i...@thejeshgn.com wrote: On Mar 1, 2014 7:59 PM, Gautam John gkj...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Gora Mohanty g...@mimirtech.com wrote: idea of having a way to get data from the Excel files, and other sources, on data.gov.in and other places, and providing real API-based access, and have some thoughts on this. Should we discuss this here, or take it offline. Wouldn't something like CKAN work? http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/api/index.html I had not checked the CKAN in a long time. It looks very interesting. It doesn't say anything about GIS part. I am very interested in GIS. I will probably install over the weekend and let group explore. We have extensively used GIS with GeoDjango. While GIS is doable, maybe we should agree upon what the primary purpose of the site should be. What I thought that you were proposing was a site that acts as a central location where data from multiple Indian data sources are accumulated, and provided to users via an API. While we are also interested in GIS, visualisation, and reporting, to my mind that should be a secondary focus for this site. My focus is to deliver bangalore data through API. that includes location based query too - For example given lat, long what are the nearest bus stops. - Given a lat, long what are the nearest schools - Given a lat, long whats the AC, PB and WARD etc There are the things that can be consumed by an app directly. Regards, Gora -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups datameet group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups datameet group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: [datameet] API for Bangalore
On 2 March 2014 14:27, Thejesh GN i...@thejeshgn.com wrote: [...] My focus is to deliver bangalore data through API. that includes location based query too - For example given lat, long what are the nearest bus stops. - Given a lat, long what are the nearest schools - Given a lat, long whats the AC, PB and WARD etc There are the things that can be consumed by an app directly. OK, that makes sense. GIS queries are expensive though, and we will have to worry about how best to handle these. If you can check out CKAN, I will start articulating our ideas on how to crowd-source data-import from poorly-structured CSV/Excel files which unfortunately seems to be the preferred format for many data sites. Regards, Gora -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups datameet group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: [datameet] API for Bangalore
On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Thejesh GN i...@thejeshgn.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Gora Mohanty g...@mimirtech.com wrote: On 2 March 2014 13:13, Thejesh GN i...@thejeshgn.com wrote: On Mar 1, 2014 7:59 PM, Gautam John gkj...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Gora Mohanty g...@mimirtech.com wrote: idea of having a way to get data from the Excel files, and other sources, on data.gov.in and other places, and providing real API-based access, and have some thoughts on this. Should we discuss this here, or take it offline. Wouldn't something like CKAN work? http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/api/index.html I had not checked the CKAN in a long time. It looks very interesting. It doesn't say anything about GIS part. I am very interested in GIS. I will probably install over the weekend and let group explore. We have extensively used GIS with GeoDjango. While GIS is doable, maybe we should agree upon what the primary purpose of the site should be. What I thought that you were proposing was a site that acts as a central location where data from multiple Indian data sources are accumulated, and provided to users via an API. While we are also interested in GIS, visualisation, and reporting, to my mind that should be a secondary focus for this site. My focus is to deliver bangalore data through API. that includes location based query too - For example given lat, long what are the nearest bus stops. - Given a lat, long what are the nearest schools - Given a lat, long whats the AC, PB and WARD etc There are the things that can be consumed by an app directly. Hey, you don't necessarily need geodjango for these. You can write simple spatial queries in PostGIS. And they aren't very expensive. For example - http://postgis.refractions.net/documentation/manual-2.0/ST_Within.html I'll be more than happy to help if you need support on the spatial data front. Cheers, Sajjad. Regards, Gora -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups datameet group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups datameet group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- Sajjad Anwar http://geohacker.in http://sajjad.in/ -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups datameet group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: [datameet] API for Bangalore
On 1 March 2014 19:27, Thejesh GN i...@thejeshgn.com wrote: Let me know if you want to contribute. What are you going to use to build the API? We would be interested if Python/Django could be used. We might also be able to share in the hosting, and would probably do that in the AWS-Singapore region. Yes. In fact http://geodjango.org/ and back end will be PosGIS and PostgresSQL. Can be easily hosted on AWS EC2. Sounds good, though I think that we should first focus on building the API, with GIS features coming later. We have been internally kicking around the idea of having a way to get data from the Excel files, and other sources, on data.gov.in and other places, and providing real API-based access, and have some thoughts on this. Should we discuss this here, or take it offline. My concern with things like this remains the lack of clear licences for the usage of data from data.gov.in . It would be terrible to build a whole system, and then have the data tap turned off. Regards, Gora -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups datameet group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: [datameet] API for Bangalore
On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Gora Mohanty g...@mimirtech.com wrote: idea of having a way to get data from the Excel files, and other sources, on data.gov.in and other places, and providing real API-based access, and have some thoughts on this. Should we discuss this here, or take it offline. Wouldn't something like CKAN work? http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/api/index.html -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups datameet group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: [datameet] API for Bangalore
On 1 March 2014 19:59, Gautam John gkj...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Gora Mohanty g...@mimirtech.com wrote: idea of having a way to get data from the Excel files, and other sources, on data.gov.in and other places, and providing real API-based access, and have some thoughts on this. Should we discuss this here, or take it offline. Wouldn't something like CKAN work? http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/api/index.html Thanks for sharing this. It looks interesting, and at least at first glance would seem to be a good fit for basing the site upon. There is still a challenge in getting data from disparate, unstructured, data sites in India into such a CKAN site. Regards, Gora -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups datameet group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: [datameet] API for Bangalore
Are there any open source applications already that perform similar work of aggregating data from different sources and formats and provide it in a smooth API. I have different applications that work on different platforms and technologies and this kind of API can help in acting as a one mega database server for all apps. Atleast it can act a data repository for MIS and analysis for BI. With Best Regards, Nagarajan M, IAS District Development Officer Himmatnagar District Sabarkantha Gujarat M : 099132 71733 vizify.com/nagarajan-m [image: My Vizify unique thumbprint]https://www.vizify.com/es/502c70b9d4024500025a On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 8:07 PM, Gora Mohanty g...@mimirtech.com wrote: On 1 March 2014 19:59, Gautam John gkj...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Gora Mohanty g...@mimirtech.com wrote: idea of having a way to get data from the Excel files, and other sources, on data.gov.in and other places, and providing real API-based access, and have some thoughts on this. Should we discuss this here, or take it offline. Wouldn't something like CKAN work? http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/api/index.html Thanks for sharing this. It looks interesting, and at least at first glance would seem to be a good fit for basing the site upon. There is still a challenge in getting data from disparate, unstructured, data sites in India into such a CKAN site. Regards, Gora -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups datameet group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups datameet group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: [datameet] API for Bangalore
On 2 March 2014 08:40, Nagarajan M mnagarajan...@gmail.com wrote: Are there any open source applications already that perform similar work of aggregating data from different sources and formats and provide it in a smooth API. None that I know off of the top of my head, though we will look before starting to roll our own. There are applications that can help with bits and pieces of this task, but not an overall solution. I have different applications that work on different platforms and technologies and this kind of API can help in acting as a one mega database server for all apps. Atleast it can act a data repository for MIS and analysis for BI. Yes, I agree that this would be very useful. Maybe it can also convince government, and other institutions, in India to have proper licences for the data that they release. Regards, Gora -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups datameet group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: [datameet] API for Bangalore
On Mar 1, 2014 7:59 PM, Gautam John gkj...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Gora Mohanty g...@mimirtech.com wrote: idea of having a way to get data from the Excel files, and other sources, on data.gov.in and other places, and providing real API-based access, and have some thoughts on this. Should we discuss this here, or take it offline. Wouldn't something like CKAN work? http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/api/index.html I had not checked the CKAN in a long time. It looks very interesting. It doesn't say anything about GIS part. I am very interested in GIS. I will probably install over the weekend and let group explore. -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups datameet group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups datameet group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
Re: [datameet] API for Bangalore
On 1 March 2014 13:16, Thejesh GN i...@thejeshgn.com wrote: I am planning to build an API to deliver data from openbangalore.com It would live at api.openbangalore.org Some interesting apis are http://data.london.gov.uk Sunlight's APIs Etc Suggest me if you know any city APIs thats working really well, that can be our role model. Aim is to provide free api aceess (as much bandwidth as i can afford) for people who dont want to download data again n again for updates. Let me know if you want to contribute. What are you going to use to build the API? We would be interested if Python/Django could be used. We might also be able to share in the hosting, and would probably do that in the AWS-Singapore region. Regards, Gora -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups datameet group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
