Sources

Sources provide visual data for the map. There are currently 2 types of sources:

Records: Represented by markers

GeoJSON: Represented by shapes or boundaries

Records

Record source files are a JSON formatted array of objects with each object containing at minimum a lat and lng key. Each record is attached to a marker which is placed on the map according to the latitude (lat) and longitude (lng) keys. Any other arbitrary properties and values can be included in each record.

[
  {
    "First Name":"John",
    "Last Name":"Smith",
	...
    "lat":"47.204935",
    "lng":"-122.237967"
  },
  {
    "First Name":"Jane",
	"Last Name":"Doe",
    ...
    "lat":"47.204157",
	"lng":"-122.231124"
  }
]

Skyward typically exports data in CSV format, however there are many free online tools which can convert CSV files to JSON

CSV JSON

First Name,Last Name,lat,lng
John,Smith,47.204935,-122.237967
Jane,Doe,47.204157,-122.231124

[
  {
    "First Name":"John",
    "Last Name":"Smith",
    "lat":"47.204935",
    "lng":"-122.237967"
  },
  {
    "First Name":"Jane",
	"Last Name":"Doe",
    "lat":"47.204157",
	"lng":"-122.231124"
  }
]

GeoJSON

A GeoJSON source is a file which ~~contains either records or~~defines geospatial features (e.g school boundaries ~~stored~~) in the GeoJSON ~~format.~~format. A repository of optimized SBLSD boundary files can be downloaded from github.com/sblsd/gis.