The poi.json is not a list of dictionaries

[cedricraeymaeckers]

It seems that the poi.json file is not a list of dictionaries but the file just contains one dictionary per line in the file, this makes it difficult to process.

[webprofusion-chrisc]

I'm guessing you're coding in python, have you done any coding in other languages before?

Poi.json is a direct export of our MongoDB database which in turn is a direct export of our normal poi API for all results.

[hughsheehy]

It's not that hard to make a (python) script to make it all into a GeoJSON file.

This below is a crude example I made to turn the whole POI file into geojson. The fact that the file isn't actually valid json is a bit of a pain, but it's manageable. There's also (on my system) some fiddling with encoding. But it works.

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geojson.zip

[hughsheehy]

It's not that hard to make a (python) script to make it all into a GeoJSON file.

This below is a crude example I made to turn the whole POI file into geojson. The fact that the file isn't actually valid json is a bit of a pain, but it's manageable. There's also (on my system) some fiddling with encoding. But it works.

geojson.zip

Just on the above, I seem to have saved (and thus uploaded) a second-last version of my own little script. There's a function missing, to do this.

#still need to trim last comma and last newline from the json file. then it's an long list of json objects, with no starting or trailing [ or ].
Once that's done, it can be read as Json.

[webprofusion-chrisc]

Update: I've updated our geojson output implementation so that it validates in modern GeoJSON parsers. If you encounter bugs specific to GeoJSON please create an issue:

https://api.openchargemap.io/v3/poi/?output=geojson&countrycode=BE

[hughsheehy]

Update: I've updated our geojson output implementation so that it validates in modern GeoJSON parsers. If you encounter bugs specific to GeoJSON please create an issue:

https://api.openchargemap.io/v3/poi/?output=geojson&countrycode=BE

If I hit that API, it seems to give back only a small fraction of the charging locations in a country. Whether BE or elsewhere. Really quite a small fraction

[webprofusion-chrisc]

@hughsheehy remember that maxresults defaults to 100, so you should get max 100 results whichever country code you use unless you specify a high maxresults and an API key.

[hughsheehy]

@hughsheehy remember that maxresults defaults to 100, so you should get max 100 results whichever country code you use unless you specify a high maxresults and an API key.

Silly me. 😳