Public library data map

This project collects and maps data from public libraries across the Australia and the external Territories of Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands.

You should be able to find the location of every public library in Australia territory, plus the standard loan period for each libary service, and whether they charge overdue fines (if known, in both cases).

Check out the map at librarymap.hugh.run.

Find more on this project at about.

Attributions

See sources.

Want to help?

See contributing, especially which files to update.

Deployment

The website for this project uses git-webhooks with a customisation to run the process.js file that is found in this repository on each pull. The process.js file is stored with the webhooks files so that everything can be npm installed together. Remember this if you ever need to update the file.

This process.js file syncs any changes from the csv files into the topojson attributes (e.g. when a library changes their ILS).

Updating the topojson

NOTE: If you update the topojson file and push, the server webhook will fail because there will be local changes. TODO: some way to fix this.

1. Update boundaries

This could be a bit of faffing around, depending what you are trying to do. Merging existing entities together is reasonably easy, but if you need to pull a council area out of a regional library, for example, you might need to mess around with LGA maps.

Always work with copies of the original files.

boundaries.geo.json should be aligned with boundaries.topo.json. If in doubt, use topojson-client's topo2geo to get a geojson file with the most up to date data from the topojson:

topo2geo boundaries_new.geo.json < boundaries.topo.json
update in qgis
export out to geojson

2. Simplify to reduce the file size

Option 1

upload to https://mapshaper.org/ and 'simplify' the boundaries
download the simplified version
replace /public_library_map/boundaries.geo.json

Option 2

sudo npm install -g mapshaper # if not already installed
mapshaper boundaries.geo.json snap -clean -o force precision=0.0001 format=geojson boundaries.geo.json

3. Turn it back into `topojson`:

sudo npm install -g topojson-server # if not already installed
geo2topo boundaries.geo.json -q 50000 > website/data/boundaries.topo.json

Contributing

To contribute to the map data you can contact Hugh at librarymap [at] hugh.run. If necessary, I will add an account for you on git.suboptimal.solutions if you want to contribute to the code.

Contributors are listed at contributors.txt.

Licenses

/website/data: CC-BY-SA

everything else: GPL-3.0-or-later

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