A dinesafe application covering as much of Ontario as possible.
BC is the next target.
Twitter: @mydinesafe will serve data by interactive tweet
https://twitter.com/mydinesafe
Web: TODO
Android: TODO
Monitors open data from Peel, Waterloo and Toronto. Compiles all versions into a master archive.
Collects inspection urls from other regions in Ontario without open data inspection formats and stores them the Grab model.
URLs in the Grab model are then scraped and serialized.
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Toronto. http://www1.toronto.ca/wps/portal/contentonly?vgnextoid=4a37e03bb8d1e310VgnVCM10000071d60f89RCRD
Contains information provided by the Regional Municipality of Waterloo under licence http://www.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/regionalGovernment/OpenDataLicence.asp.
Contains public sector Information made available under The Regional Municipality of Peel's Open Data Licence - Version 1.0 http://opendata.peelregion.ca/terms-of-use.aspx
App data is contained here until as many regions as possible are covered. TODO put into a model and seed in seeds.db
https://github.com/openciti/dinesafe/blob/master/lib/app_regional/acquisitions.rb
Its 2014, have you seen my open data? Apparently only Peel, Toronto and Waterloo know the future is now. TODO: send smoke signals to other regions
The City of Ottawa has decided to release the data in CSV format and make it available as an API, which is a first in Canada.
Still working on figuring all this out. Check the ottawa branch on the repo: https://github.com/openciti/dinesafe/tree/ottawa
rake task to grab the archive, store the unzipped file, record the server timestamp and unzip the files This only occurs if the archive has been modified (using the faraday gem https://github.com/lostisland/faraday) https://github.com/openciti/dinesafe/blob/ottawa/lib/tasks/ottawa.rake
TODO: populate a model based on the csv data
Thanks to Ryan Furuness for doing it right.
Available as an XML file updated on a Monday morning early each month.
https://github.com/openciti/dinesafe/tree/master/lib/app_regional/ontario/dinesafe
Has open data, in csv and kml formats. Shapefile is corrupted.
TODO
Fax? Smoke signals? Memorandum? Carrier pigeon?
How to ask for open data from these places? #sarcasm
Nicely puts all (approx 3000) inspection links on a single page when you click on an empty form.
https://github.com/openciti/dinesafe/tree/master/lib/app_regional/ontario/durham_dinesafe
While most scrapes are done with Nokogiri, some aspx (.net) apps require Mechanize.
Mechanize is a way to browse websites programmatically.
https://github.com/sparklemotion/mechanize
More involved than Durham region as there are 12 inspection sites instead of one
https://github.com/openciti/dinesafe/blob/master/lib/app_regional/ontario/infodine/niagara_pwner.rb
- gets the 12 regional urls from the infodine homepage
- creates a directory structure with a timestamp as the root and
with a subfolder for each region
- blasts through each regional site to get inspection urls
- saves the eventual desired file path and the url in the Grab
model for later processing
- TODO start a cron task to perform scraping on the over 3000 inspection urls
- TODO write the final scraper
Referred to as 'Facility' due to this term common to the URLs
Inspections for these regions are very easy to access, as the urls and web structure are the same or similar.
Request all records in one page by setting &page-size=-1
https://github.com/openciti/dinesafe/blob/master/lib/app_regional/facility_type_site_pwner.rb
General class that covers
Guelph / Wellington
Timiskaming
Vancouver Coastal Region
York region
All regions except for VCH use the same web app.
https://github.com/openciti/dinesafe/tree/master/lib/tasks
dinesafe:grab dinesafe:parse
dinesafe:grabshapefile dinesafe:geo
guelph:pwn durham:pwn infodine:pwn niagara:pwn york:pwn waterloo:grab
Done with RufusScheduler https://github.com/jmettraux/rufus-scheduler
https://github.com/openciti/dinesafe/tree/master/config/initializers/crons