About
Basic concepts and guidelines
User Guides
For users
For mappers
Technical
Learn about Dokuwiki
About
Basic concepts and guidelines
User Guides
For users
For mappers
Technical
Learn about Dokuwiki
This is an old revision of the document!
This page is outdated. Please help completing the wiki updates.
As an ODI we cannot promote non-open-source applications it’s part of our philosophy of Openness and Independence.
Here are some fundamentals are guiding principles:
Sometimes we do use proprietary software and this mix is going to be around for various reasons. Where-ever possible we do try to ensure that these companies have a ‘social’ component that offers services for non-for-profits which offers the full suite without a cost. Tableau and DataWrapper do, as does Mapbox. We have previously moved away from some applications because they do not off these services - such as Carto, ArcGIS and to an extent that we still use some is because of legacy. i.e. many had free terms and then changed these policies at a later date.
Collaborative documentation
Data cleaning
Translation
RSS news feeds
Web scraping
API Creation / Testing
Archiving Webpages
Web Search * Tor Browser Use Tor and Tor Browser to search * DuckDuckGo * Qwant
Web app automation
* IFTTT
* Zapier
Visualization and infographics
Interactive tutorials