What's happening with emitter.ca?

[Glen Newton]

http://www.emitter.ca/index.php/developer

> 1. The data used by Emitter has been gently 'lifted' from NPRI's site
> (mostly from the downloadable .mdb's), we figured out how the data was
> reported and integrated it with geospacial data & added our
> analyses). These datasets were loaded into DataDOTgc.ca
> http://www.datadotgc.ca/data/tag/emitter

Response: "Sorry, we couldn't find any results for the keyword(s) you entered."

> catalogue (tagged as 'emitter'), and made available as a download
> AND as APIs by using OGDI open source toolkit.
> The APIs to the NPRI data are available on DataDOTgc's OGDI
> instance.
> http://datadotgc.cloudapp.net/DataCatalog/DataSetList
> Filter by keyword "Emitter" to see all of the datasets that
> we used.

This works.

> 2. Emitter has been released as open source under the New BSD
> license. Source code can be downloaded from GitHub at:
> github.com/redbit/Emitter.
> http://github.com/redbit/Emitter

Reponse: "404 This is not the page you are looking for"

> 3. The Emitter API* is available for use for free and provides you
> with search capabilities and retrieval of an individual facility's
> details. Furthermore, there are two distinct HTTP API requests that
> can be made to interact with the data used on Emitter.ca.

Emitter.ca was launched 2010.11.12
(http://eaves.ca/2010/11/12/launching-emitter-ca-open-data-pollution-and-your-community/)
I'm still waiting on the API...

-Glen

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[David Eaves]

Hi Glen,

Thank you for your email.

In response to your queries.

1. Github - not sure what is going on there. Am trying to figure it out
and will get back to you.

2. On the location of the data - I didn't try searching for emitter but
after clikcing on the link
(http://datadotgc.cloudapp.net/DataCatalog/DataSetList) I saw all the
emitter data sets listed right below. If the keyword doesn't work, I'm
not sure why - that is an ODGI issue, not a emitter.ca issue - but
irregardless the data is there and easy to find.

3. I think that you can get an API off of the Datadotgc instance listed
above. If not, I'll check - but were volunteer driven so if you'd like
to help get the API live I can put you in touch with the developers -
I'm sure they'd love your help.

Dave

On 12-03-16 12:46 PM, Glen Newton wrote:

> http://www.emitter.ca/index.php/developer
>
>> 1. The data used by Emitter has been gently 'lifted' from NPRI's site
>> (mostly from the downloadable .mdb's), we figured out how the data was
>> reported and integrated it with geospacial data&  added our
>> analyses). These datasets were loaded into DataDOTgc.ca
>> http://www.datadotgc.ca/data/tag/emitter
> Response: "Sorry, we couldn't find any results for the keyword(s) you entered."
>
>> catalogue (tagged as 'emitter'), and made available as a download
>> AND as APIs by using OGDI open source toolkit.
>> The APIs to the NPRI data are available on DataDOTgc's OGDI
>> instance.
>> http://datadotgc.cloudapp.net/DataCatalog/DataSetList
>> Filter by keyword "Emitter" to see all of the datasets that
>> we used.
> This works.
>
>> 2. Emitter has been released as open source under the New BSD
>> license. Source code can be downloaded from GitHub at:
>> github.com/redbit/Emitter.
>> http://github.com/redbit/Emitter
> Reponse: "404 This is not the page you are looking for"
>
>> 3. The Emitter API* is available for use for free and provides you
>> with search capabilities and retrieval of an individual facility's
>> details. Furthermore, there are two distinct HTTP API requests that
>> can be made to interact with the data used on Emitter.ca.
> Emitter.ca was launched 2010.11.12
> (http://eaves.ca/2010/11/12/launching-emitter-ca-open-data-pollution-and-your-community/)
> I'm still waiting on the API...
>
> -Glen
>

[Nik G]

HI Glen -

To elaborate on David's message:

1) Code:  https://github.com/openlab/emitter
(the code was moved but forgot to update the Developer page, thanks for
pointing out)

2) Data:  filter by keyword "Emitter" - that will give you 6 data sets,
which map out to 6 main tables of the NPRI's database:

3) API:  There's a dataset-level API for each of the 6 datasets. Those can
be accessed via oData web service (XML/JSON), and also for the "Emitter
Facility" dataset there's KML as well. e.g.:
http://datadotgc.cloudapp.net/DataBrowser/def/emitterfacility#param=city%2520eq%2520%2527Milton%2527--MapView--Results--r--11---79.81876373291017--43.52465500687187

We would really love some help with architecting an Application-level API,
one which could return results with dataset relationships captured. The plan
was to a temporal aspect to emitter by bringing in datasets from 1993-2007,
and new data for 2009 and prelim 2010. That API should be able to serve back
a set of Facilities, with corresponding annual emission data for each.

If anyone with REST API design expertise wants to jump in, would be much
appreciated.

thanks
Nik

-----Original Message-----
From: David Eaves
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 4:01 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: [CivicAccess-discuss] What's happening with emitter.ca?

Hi Glen,

Thank you for your email.

In response to your queries.

1. Github - not sure what is going on there. Am trying to figure it out
and will get back to you.

2. On the location of the data - I didn't try searching for emitter but
after clikcing on the link
(http://datadotgc.cloudapp.net/DataCatalog/DataSetList) I saw all the
emitter data sets listed right below. If the keyword doesn't work, I'm
not sure why - that is an ODGI issue, not a emitter.ca issue - but
irregardless the data is there and easy to find.

3. I think that you can get an API off of the Datadotgc instance listed
above. If not, I'll check - but were volunteer driven so if you'd like
to help get the API live I can put you in touch with the developers -
I'm sure they'd love your help.

Dave

On 12-03-16 12:46 PM, Glen Newton wrote:

> http://www.emitter.ca/index.php/developer
>
>> 1. The data used by Emitter has been gently 'lifted' from NPRI's site
>> (mostly from the downloadable .mdb's), we figured out how the data was
>> reported and integrated it with geospacial data&  added our
>> analyses). These datasets were loaded into DataDOTgc.ca
>> http://www.datadotgc.ca/data/tag/emitter
> Response: "Sorry, we couldn't find any results for the keyword(s) you
> entered."
>
>> catalogue (tagged as 'emitter'), and made available as a download
>> AND as APIs by using OGDI open source toolkit.
>> The APIs to the NPRI data are available on DataDOTgc's OGDI
>> instance.
>> http://datadotgc.cloudapp.net/DataCatalog/DataSetList
>> Filter by keyword "Emitter" to see all of the datasets that
>> we used.
> This works.
>
>> 2. Emitter has been released as open source under the New BSD
>> license. Source code can be downloaded from GitHub at:
>> github.com/redbit/Emitter.
>> http://github.com/redbit/Emitter
> Reponse: "404 This is not the page you are looking for"
>
>> 3. The Emitter API* is available for use for free and provides you
>> with search capabilities and retrieval of an individual facility's
>> details. Furthermore, there are two distinct HTTP API requests that
>> can be made to interact with the data used on Emitter.ca.
> Emitter.ca was launched 2010.11.12
> (http://eaves.ca/2010/11/12/launching-emitter-ca-open-data-pollution-and-your-community/)
> I'm still waiting on the API...
>
> -Glen
>

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[Glen Newton]

Hi Nik,

Thanks for the update. I see the code now.

I tend to get annoyed at projects that have a big fanfare release
(with promises) then kind of fizzle after that.

I don't work on that platform, so probably can't help you.....

Thanks,
Glen

On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Nik Garkusha <[hidden email]> wrote:

> HI Glen -
>
> To elaborate on David's message:
>
> 1) Code:  https://github.com/openlab/emitter
> (the code was moved but forgot to update the Developer page, thanks for
> pointing out)
>
> 2) Data:  filter by keyword "Emitter" - that will give you 6 data sets,
> which map out to 6 main tables of the NPRI's database:
>
> 3) API:  There's a dataset-level API for each of the 6 datasets. Those can
> be accessed via oData web service (XML/JSON), and also for the "Emitter
> Facility" dataset there's KML as well. e.g.:
> http://datadotgc.cloudapp.net/DataBrowser/def/emitterfacility#param=city%2520eq%2520%2527Milton%2527--MapView--Results--r--11---79.81876373291017--43.52465500687187
>
> We would really love some help with architecting an Application-level API,
> one which could return results with dataset relationships captured. The plan
> was to a temporal aspect to emitter by bringing in datasets from 1993-2007,
> and new data for 2009 and prelim 2010. That API should be able to serve back
> a set of Facilities, with corresponding annual emission data for each.
>
> If anyone with REST API design expertise wants to jump in, would be much
> appreciated.
>
> thanks
> Nik
>
> -----Original Message----- From: David Eaves
> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 4:01 PM
> To: [hidden email]
> Subject: Re: [CivicAccess-discuss] What's happening with emitter.ca?
>
>
> Hi Glen,
>
> Thank you for your email.
>
> In response to your queries.
>
> 1. Github - not sure what is going on there. Am trying to figure it out
> and will get back to you.
>
> 2. On the location of the data - I didn't try searching for emitter but
> after clikcing on the link
> (http://datadotgc.cloudapp.net/DataCatalog/DataSetList) I saw all the
> emitter data sets listed right below. If the keyword doesn't work, I'm
> not sure why - that is an ODGI issue, not a emitter.ca issue - but
> irregardless the data is there and easy to find.
>
> 3. I think that you can get an API off of the Datadotgc instance listed
> above. If not, I'll check - but were volunteer driven so if you'd like
> to help get the API live I can put you in touch with the developers -
> I'm sure they'd love your help.
>
> Dave
>
> On 12-03-16 12:46 PM, Glen Newton wrote:
>>
>> http://www.emitter.ca/index.php/developer
>>
>>> 1. The data used by Emitter has been gently 'lifted' from NPRI's site
>>> (mostly from the downloadable .mdb's), we figured out how the data was
>>> reported and integrated it with geospacial data&  added our
>>> analyses). These datasets were loaded into DataDOTgc.ca
>>> http://www.datadotgc.ca/data/tag/emitter
>>
>> Response: "Sorry, we couldn't find any results for the keyword(s) you
>> entered."
>>
>>> catalogue (tagged as 'emitter'), and made available as a download
>>> AND as APIs by using OGDI open source toolkit.
>>> The APIs to the NPRI data are available on DataDOTgc's OGDI
>>> instance.
>>> http://datadotgc.cloudapp.net/DataCatalog/DataSetList
>>> Filter by keyword "Emitter" to see all of the datasets that
>>> we used.
>>
>> This works.
>>
>>> 2. Emitter has been released as open source under the New BSD
>>> license. Source code can be downloaded from GitHub at:
>>> github.com/redbit/Emitter.
>>> http://github.com/redbit/Emitter
>>
>> Reponse: "404 This is not the page you are looking for"
>>
>>> 3. The Emitter API* is available for use for free and provides you
>>> with search capabilities and retrieval of an individual facility's
>>> details. Furthermore, there are two distinct HTTP API requests that
>>> can be made to interact with the data used on Emitter.ca.
>>
>> Emitter.ca was launched 2010.11.12
>>
>> (http://eaves.ca/2010/11/12/launching-emitter-ca-open-data-pollution-and-your-community/)
>> I'm still waiting on the API...
>>
>> -Glen
>>
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