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Great action! Congrats to the organization and all the teams! They all have special merits since the state of the public data in Spain is just awful. One may th

by porras 16y ago

Great action! Congrats to the organization and all the teams! They all have special merits since the state of the public data in Spain is just awful. One may think of crushing raw data but it's more like scraping really crappy websites. I hope there's some noise with this action and open data really starts in Spain. My favorite entries: http://lospresusde.org/ http://lospresusde.org/ http://3126euros.com/ http://3126euros.com/ http://www.gastopublico.es/ http://www.gastopublico.es/ http://www.misparadas.com/locations http://www.misparadas.com/locations http://modalkombat.demimismo.com/ http://modalkombat.demimismo.com/ http://populo.heroku.com/ http://populo.heroku.com/ http://monquartier.heroku.com/ http://monquartier.heroku.com/ (I may be biased here, this is my project ;) )

tropin 16y ago
Hola porras, why the lack of cities in your project?
- porras 16y ago
  I'm glad you asked this question ;-) The contest's purpose is not to replace real open data with scraping bad HTML, but to show people what kind of things would be possible if government freed the data. The projects are just examples but not full featured, because the scraping approach has obvious limitations. In our case, all data is scraped from the INE website (http://www.ine.es/ http://www.ine.es/), but there's one single data which couldn't be obtained from any official source in a programmatical way, one that is essential: the mapping between official districts number and the district name. We had to type that data (http://github.com/valakirka/monquartier/blob/master/config/districts.yml http://github.com/valakirka/monquartier/blob/master/config/d...) and that's the only reason of the small scope. If we had had normalized and public data, our app would include the data for all cities, towns and villages in Spain, and not only at the district level but also at the neighbourhood level, which would make it a lot more interesting (and that's what we wanted to make clear to the people). When government does its part, we'll do ours ;)
duopixel 16y ago
Glad to see you liked our project porras! As soon as the judging period is over we will publish an updated version that rocks.

by porras 16y ago

tropin 16y ago

Hola porras, why the lack of cities in your project?

porras 16y ago
I'm glad you asked this question ;-) The contest's purpose is not to replace real open data with scraping bad HTML, but to show people what kind of things would be possible if government freed the data. The projects are just examples but not full featured, because the scraping approach has obvious limitations. In our case, all data is scraped from the INE website (http://www.ine.es/ http://www.ine.es/), but there's one single data which couldn't be obtained from any official source in a programmatical way, one that is essential: the mapping between official districts number and the district name. We had to type that data (http://github.com/valakirka/monquartier/blob/master/config/districts.yml http://github.com/valakirka/monquartier/blob/master/config/d...) and that's the only reason of the small scope. If we had had normalized and public data, our app would include the data for all cities, towns and villages in Spain, and not only at the district level but also at the neighbourhood level, which would make it a lot more interesting (and that's what we wanted to make clear to the people). When government does its part, we'll do ours ;)

duopixel 16y ago

Glad to see you liked our project porras! As soon as the judging period is over we will publish an updated version that rocks.