From 87b472c70d06f69482edc00e72a67e8f55369f48 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hugh Rundle Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2021 19:20:19 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] updated contributing page --- contributing.md | 4 ++-- website/contributing/index.html | 14 +++++++------- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/contributing.md b/contributing.md index 196047c..e4ab3ce 100644 --- a/contributing.md +++ b/contributing.md @@ -32,11 +32,11 @@ If you are adding a lot of data and have a new source for it, make sure it is ci ### Missing or inaccurate data -Currently we're missing data for some library services in relation to **standard loan periods** and **fines for overdue items**. +Currently we're missing data for some library services in relation to **standard loan periods** and **fines for overdue items**. Any acurate and specific information about fines for South and Western Australia would be particularly helpful. It's likely that some **library location data** is inaccurate — especially for New South Wales. It's also possible that the address data is wrong (even though the location shown may be correct), and in some cases it is missing. -It's possible that some of the **fines data for Queensland** is a little off. This came from the State Library of Queensland but I know for a fact that some of the data was wrong (e.g. Gold Coast Libraries does not charge overdue fines, but the SLQ reports says it does). +It's possible that some of the **fines data for Queensland** is a little off. This came from the State Library of Queensland but some of the data was wrong (e.g. Gold Coast Libraries does not charge overdue fines, but the SLQ report says it does). I am particularly interested if you know of data sources for entire regions, states, or Australia — especially if they're reliably kept up to date. diff --git a/website/contributing/index.html b/website/contributing/index.html index 5c2b1ff..a486ce6 100644 --- a/website/contributing/index.html +++ b/website/contributing/index.html @@ -32,15 +32,15 @@

I’d love your help to make Library Map as accurate and useful as possible.

How to contribute your idea, bug report or improvement

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  1. Look at the current GitHub issues tagged help wantedto see if you can help. Most of these will be to do with updating data, like finding street addresses or other information.
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  2. Look at the current GitHub issues tagged help wanted to see if you can help. Most of these will be to do with updating data, like finding street addresses or other information.
  3. You can create a new issue on GitHub.
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  4. You can send a pull request — though it is strongly preferred that you either ask to be assigned to an existing issue (so everyone knows you're working on it), or create a new issue, first.
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  5. You can send a pull request — though it is strongly preferred that you either ask to be assigned to an existing issue (so everyone knows you’re working on it), or create a new issue, first.
  6. You can just send an email to librarymap@hugh.run and ask me to fix/add something.

If you have not used Git or GitHub before

There is a class outline for an introduction to Git and GitHub aimed at librarians at librarycarpentry.org. This assumes you are using the command line. If you create or already have a GitHub account, you can also edit files directly in the browser, or use GitHub Desktop - both of which are probably less intimidating options if you don’t have any desire to learn how to use a command line/shell interface, or just want to make a single minor update.

Which files to update

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To update information about library services (e.g. fines info, loan period etc) you should edit website/data/library_services_information.csv

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To update information about library services (e.g. fines info, loan period etc) you should edit website/data/library_services_information.csv.

After your Pull Request is merged, a GitHub Action will automatically create a second pull request that merges data from website/data/library_services_information.csv into website/data/boundaries.topo.json. Please do not edit the topo.json file directly.

To update information about library locations (e.g. street address, phone number, coordinates) you should edit the relevant csv location file: