{"id":932,"date":"2007-07-03T22:47:37","date_gmt":"2007-07-03T21:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/electronicmuseum.wordpress.com\/2007\/07\/03\/museum-directory-v20\/"},"modified":"2020-11-18T15:05:43","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T15:05:43","slug":"museum-directory-v20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/variousbits.net\/2007\/07\/03\/museum-directory-v20\/","title":{"rendered":"Museum directory v2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In my previous post<\/a> about the “museum directory” I built at UK Museums on the Web mashup day, I mentioned a museum address CSV file from the 24hr Museum which I planned to put use at a later date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The original source I had contained *really* dodgy data and only about 380 institutions – I’d done some seriously horrible hacking to get it out of various APIs – but the new feed is derived from the 24hr Museum “Direct Data Entry” (DDE) system. This contains around 3,800 entries and is therefore much more interesting as a dataset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

24hr Museum have asked that I don’t expose the KML file at this time, so what you see is the museum directory as it was in version one<\/a> but with more, and more accurate, data. Version 2 is pretty much the same code and approach as the original – read about how I did it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new data set still didn’t contain geo references, so I had to re-hack the original postcode script to query the Google AJAX API on a running basis and write the lat\/long back to the database. That hurt a bit – nearly 4,000 queries takes a long time, especially when postcodes weren’t found. This slightly manual approach, together with some discrepancies in the CSV I had to deal with by hand led me to add the disclaimer on the page about accuracy – nothing to do with the original data…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, enough tech rubbish. Go play with version two<\/a><\/strong> and let me know any ideas or thoughts you have. I’m already thinking about the next version which is gonna be a whole lot more exciting, functionality-wise…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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