Geodata showing African terrestrial fibre optic cable projects. Data is available as CSV or JSON (+ GeoJSON) via the DataStore API.
Data
Primary data file is the CSV resource: http://thedatahub.org/dataset/afterfibre/resource/f5d81da5-2e55-4302-8ed2-58401d2c139e
However, this data needed to be cleaned up and converted to geojson for storing in the DataHub DataStore and visualization. Details of this below.
Cleaning Process
Use data package manager (dpm) to clone the DataHub dataset.
# say yes to downloading of data files
dpm clone http://thedatahub.org/dataset/afterfibre .
You will now have an afterfibre directory containing the dataset.
cd afterfibre
Grab scripts from the code repository
git clone https://github.com/rgrp/dp-afterfibre .
Now run cleanup - note you will need to install geojson (pip install geojson)
python convert.py
Now you have json version of data in data/AfTerFibre_21nov2011.json. We will upload this to the DataHub DataStore for the original CSV.
Note: you will need the DataStore client from https://gist.github.com/1950581
ckan-datastore.py upload http://thedatahub.org/api/data/f5d81da5-2e55-4302-8ed2-58401d2c139e data/AfTerFibre_21nov2011.json
Let's check the result, visit: http://thedatahub.org/api/data/f5d81da5-2e55-4302-8ed2-58401d2c139e/_search?size=5&pretty=true
Now the data's ready for easy visualization in javascript! (Check ou the visualization resource).