I am working on created a JSON dataset of Points of Interest for Manchester, based on this data: http://opendata.manchesterdda.com/archives/328.

The data has its own categories for the points of interest. Do I have to map those to an existing list of Citadel categories?

Hi Alan,

There is no list of categories for Citadel.
If you follow the common POI format, then you just have to add the categories of a POI inside the 'category' array of it.
For example

"poi":[

{

"id":"1",

"category":[

"category1","category2",...

],

"title:"POI-Title",

...

}

]



The template will pick them up automatically.


thanks,

Leonidas

P.S. You could also check out the mapping tool in user extensions. It converts CSV's to the citadel json format

Thanks. I've followed your advice about the categories.

I've made a big JSON document with a list of POIs in Manchester. Here's an example document for one POI:



I'm just trying to get it to load now. (Goes back and reads the documentation more.)

Do you want me to upload the Manchester JSON file somewhere so it can be checked for validity?

Thanks,
Alan

Nice work Alan, would you mind sharing how you did the conversion? And yes, by all means, upload the JSON ;)

OK, I'll upload the JSON data when I know I've got it working correctly with my copy of the POIs template.

As for converting the data, I wrote a quick and dirty Ruby script. I can upload that but not sure where to?

Hi Alan,

You can use the User Extensions area to upload your script.

Alright, I'll transfer the JSON information when I know I've got it working accurately with my duplicate of the PoIS layout. 

With respect to changing over the information, I composed a down to business Ruby script. I can transfer that however not certain where to?

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