{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/jlm323/DecameronProject/issues/18","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/jlm323/DecameronProject","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/jlm323/DecameronProject/issues/18/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/jlm323/DecameronProject/issues/18/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/jlm323/DecameronProject/issues/18/events","html_url":"https://github.com/jlm323/DecameronProject/issues/18","id":148579229,"number":18,"title":"Mapping Leads","user":{"login":"ebeshero","id":4014518,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4014518?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/ebeshero","html_url":"https://github.com/ebeshero","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ebeshero/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ebeshero/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ebeshero/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ebeshero/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ebeshero/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ebeshero/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ebeshero/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ebeshero/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ebeshero/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2016-04-15T07:28:07Z","updated_at":"2016-04-15T07:28:07Z","closed_at":null,"body":"@mjb232 @laurenmcguigan Here are some leads for mapping that I've been testing:\r\n\r\n1) Output a list of distinct places marked in the Decameron Project. You can pull names from either the Italian or English files, or both. The Italian file has some good detail marked in the attributes, defining cities from regions, for example.\r\n\r\n2) Run the list through one of the following to \"geocode\" it--or add latitudes and longitudes from a lookup service. In the past we've tried: http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/geocoder/ which can output a KML data format: KML is a kind of XML that is used for mapping. (Some web mapping services import KML, like Google Maps.) Some others take formats like TSV or CSV).\r\n\r\nI have a tutorial/exercise on generating and plotting KLM out of a different project team's files here: http://newtfire.org/dh/XQueryExercise3.html \r\n(It's a homework assignment we displaced this semester with network analysis.)\r\n\r\nOR  try to do the lookup in XQuery directly: I have been experimenting with a service called geonames, which lets you set up a free account and run search queries: I managed to reach them inside eXist: \r\nhttp://www.geonames.org/export/web-services.html\r\nbut I'm having trouble accessing multiple files--I can look at one at a time, but I can't output many of them. I'd like to show you a little about how these geocode services work. I think the GPS Visualizer I linked to in 2) is probably our best bet, but we need to test it...\r\n"}}