Geomap of OKFN Community Members

3 1	Pull out the location field from OKFN member profiles, geolocate them and then plot them on a map. okfn community geomap submitted 08 Apr '11, 21:24 rgrp ♦♦ 646●19●31●34 accept rate: 45%

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A basic version of this is now done (much still to improve -- see README in source):

http://okfn.org/dashboard/

Source code here:

https://bitbucket.org/okfn/okfn-dashboard

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solved 22 Apr '11, 09:41

rgrp ♦♦
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repo moved to: https://github.com/okfn/okfn-dashboard

(24 Oct '11, 10:45) elf Pavlik

Is there any kind of API for accessing member profiles?

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solved 13 Apr '11, 05:29

Mike Chelen
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Not as far as I can tell (I've looked into buddypress and there does not appear to be an API). I guess we could just scrape the data. If I can get you the data in JSON can you create a geomap in javascript?

(20 Apr '11, 19:35) rgrp ♦♦

Update: I've done a hack to get the data out of the source wordpress database and convert to json so we are on our way!

(22 Apr '11, 08:49) rgrp ♦♦

hmm. Guess I should've set my location to 'London' not 'London UK' :-D

(29 Nov '11, 10:51) Harry Wood

@Harry: London, UK should be no problem. We use geonames to do the geolocation from names and it is ok with commas but not spaces. Code is here https://github.com/okfn/dashboard/blob/master/scripts/members.py#L61 -- improvements welcome!

(30 Nov '11, 19:10) rgrp ♦♦

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