README.md

Niagara Open Data

Open Data Sets

• Canada Open Government: http://open.canada.ca/en

• Ontario: https://www.ontario.ca/open-data

• Niagara Region: http://www.niagararegion.ca/government/opendata/

• Niagara Falls: https://www.niagarafalls.ca/services/open/data/

• Welland: http://www.welland.ca/open/Opendata.asp

Other Data Resources

• City Data: http://www.city-data.com/canada/

• Open Geospatial Data: http://www.brocku.ca/maplibrary/digital/web-resources.php

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Helpful Tools & Resources

Geographic Data Formats:

• KML
• GeoJSON
• TopoJSON

Popular Data Formats:

• CSV
• TSV
• JSON
• XML

Using GitHub to Display Data

GitHub can be an excellent tool for sharing and visualizing data of various types.

• CSV/TSV: View and search data in friendly display. See bus stop CSV example

• GeoJSON: Display Map. See bus stop GeoJSON example

Viewing Geographic Data

Tools for displaying KML:

• KML Displayer: http://display-kml.appspot.com

Tools for displaying GeoJSON

• http://geoJSON.io
• http://jansanchez.com/geojson-viewer/

Other tools

• http://dev.openlayers.org/examples/vector-formats.html

Tools For Converting Data

Many tools exist that can convert data into desired formats.

Online Tools

CSV: This site http://www.convertcsv.com, has many tools for converting all kind of data formats to and from CSV.

CSV to GeoJSON: http://togeojson.com

Scripts & Libraries

CSV to GeoJSON (nodeJS module): http://dev.openlayers.org/examples/vector-formats.html

KML to CSV (ruby script):

See scripts folder in this repo: https://github.com/NiagaraOpenData/opendata/blob/master/_scripts/kml2csv

Run this command:

ruby kml2csv kmlfile.xml > newfile.csv

JSON to CSV (PHP): https://github.com/danmandle/JSON2CSV