frostline
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waldoj
A dataset, API, and parser for USDA plant hardiness zones.
For example, 90840 is in the US (CONUS) PHZ csv, but not in zipcodes.csv, so it results in a 404 https://phzmapi.org/90840.json This seems to be opposite of the case mentioned...
Were the bulk files removed for any particular reason? dead links + https://github.com/waldoj/frostline/blob/master/hardiness_zones.csv + https://github.com/waldoj/frostline/blob/master/hardiness_zones.sqlite [open data stack exchange](https://opendata.stackexchange.com/a/5401/1511)
* [ ] retrieve ZIP files * [ ] unzip them * [ ] convert each shapefile into GeoJSON
e.g., 55555 (Young America, MN). This is because there is no PHZ data for this ZIP. But don't just 404—provide something useful. (Or maybe 404 is better?)
Right now, it's provided as per the source data (e.g., `-10 to 0`). It would be more useful to render this as an array (`10,0`). Note that this would break...
Using the YAML as the source data (#25), generate a stub file for each JSON, using the schema that's in place on the live site.
It would be useful to let people issue queries using lat/lon instead of just ZIP. But I'm only interested in doing so if I can use a very lightweight hosting...
Spot-check some data files to ensure that include the correct data. That means randomly selecting a few rows from the CSV, and comparing their values to those within the JSON.