Create a list of maps that are missing info, should be combined, or need a co-maintainer

[allella]

Looking for folks to contact an existing layer maintainer and offer to co-maintain.

[allella]

Let's create a list of map layers from https://data.openupstate.org/maps2 that could be options for students who don't have their own map layer idea in the Fall 2017 class of SC Codes.

[allella]

Recycling and Solid Waste is one example that seems like it could / should be combined.

[allella]

@ealdthryth you asked about converting addresses to lat long.

It may be possible to add street address too, but there's two functions that at least will do city, state, country.

Here's a simple example, which is a script you add to Tools -> Script Editor inside of a Google Spreadsheet and then you can put the function into a cell and it will calculate a result.

=geocodelat(C2, D2, E2)
=geocodelong(C2, D2, E2)

function geocodelat(city, state, country) {
    var response = Maps.newGeocoder().setRegion('com').geocode(city + ', ' + state + ' ' + country);
    var l;
    if (response.status === "OK") {
      Logger.log("response " + JSON.stringify(response));
      if((l = response.results[0].geometry.location)) {
        return l.lat;
      }
    }
    else {
      return "error";
    }
}

function geocodelong(city, state, country) {
    var response = Maps.newGeocoder().setRegion('com').geocode(city + ', ' + state + ' ' + country);
    var l;
    if (response.status === "OK") {
      Logger.log("response " + JSON.stringify(response));
      if((l = response.results[0].geometry.location)) {
        return l.lng;
      }
    }
    else {
      return "error";
    }
}

[allella]

We only have GitHub usernames and I don't think we can automate that, so we'd probably need to contact everyone, see if they will continue helping, and get an email to be able to ping them

[allella]

@MarkMcDaniels suggested "Should I write a script that grabs all map & maintainers so that we have can figure out who is still and active participant, and who isn't?"

[tmcnairbledsoe]

Art Galleries is missing a large amount of data. Will add today

[allella]

We're trying to audit what's there since we have a number of out of date layers and don't want to add more layers that are likely to go unmaintained.

We can also consider pruning layers if they are too commercial (things Google Maps and such already do well) and aren't maintained.
For a lot of the layers we tried to find things which change infrequently and with other online resources don't do well or complete