Create example records

[kgjenkins]

Several examples would be useful:

• simple bare-bones example
• more complex map sheets
• more complex air photo frames

[ect123]

this is a good idea, especially if the intention is for them to be imported/copied and used as boilerplate. Which would be better: downloadable text files, or embedded text? If embedded text, then they could probably only be only a single feature.

[srappel]

@kgjenkins and @ect123

I've got a working example at https://github.com/OpenIndexMaps/edu.uwm/blob/master/233bA62500a.geojson

[kgjenkins]

Thanks for the example, @srappel! What did you use to create it? I think you get extra points for making the value of the "location" field an array of strings (rather than just a concatenated string)!

The only issue I see is the color attribute -- shouldn't it just be "color" rather than "Printed Map (Color)"? I'm not sure where the "printed map" info go... maybe that is something that should be specified in the as-yet-undefined collection-level metadata?

[srappel]

Thanks, @kgjenkins . "Printed Map (Color)" is how we store that information in our Geodex system, so I just copied it verbatim. Looking at the spec, I see it's a controlled vocab. I'll push an updated version with a correction.

[kgjenkins]

The spec currently has "Color", but I'd recommend we update that to be all lowercase.

[srappel]

I wonder if we really intended it to be controlled, or if those are examples. After all it does say "...or other color type". We have a bunch of different color types we store: color, false color IR, monochrome, blueprint, black and white, grayscale, and a few others. It wouldn't be the end of the world to lose some of that resolution, but it doesn't seem like it would hurt anything.

And to answer your other question, I exported the records from our Geodex Geodatabase as a table, supplemented and cleaned it up a bit, and then just wrote a python script to map the fields from the Geodex Schema to the OIM schema and write out the records as a GeoJSON. Sloppy trial-and-error python 😄.

My intern and I are working on some other example sets and trying to streamline the process.