research-l Mailing List: Re: cohousing.org/directory as source of data

[Neil Planchon (neil]

Hello Fred

It is good to hear from you. I hope all is well with you and Becca.

I know of no one who has that data other that ic.org. Coho/US years back did not have the capacity to create our own db. So, we kinda negotiated and ic who already had all the tech infrastructure got to have “our” data. :(

I too am looking for the ic.org/coho/us directory database for a data visualization project - beyond simple geo mapping as a side Cohousing project.  I am asked dozens of time a year for information which is what leads me to building a tool to share it!!! I’d love to share and display the results on CRN, Coho/US and FIC sites. It’ll take a while to build and there are some really simple-ish tools out there now.

Tony has moved on from ic.org and a new team inc a new ED are growing and nurturing the FIC.  I am email them this week and will ask for a fresh download which I am happy to share with you since it is public data.

How brave of you to got the brute force way!

So I do not have an instant solution. I will be reaching out to FIC and asking for said data in the next week.

Sending you Oakland greetings!

Cordially, 

Neil

Swan's Market Cohousing (http://www.swansway.com)

Life Coach. Director, OpenOakland, etc etc..

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nplanchon

On Dec 7, 2016, at 9:22 AM, Angela Sanguinetti <angelasanguinetti [at] gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Fred,

In the past, Tony Serna who used to manage the ic.org (and cohous) directory has sent me the database in spreadsheet form. I forget who is taking care of it now, but if you could get them to send you the data, at least the variables you need, in a spreadsheet, you could sort by property size. CRN doesnt seem have that variable in our databases, unfortunately.

Best,

Angela

On Dec 7, 2016 7:48 AM, "Fred H Olson" <fholson [at] cohousing.org> wrote:

Hi,

I've tried to use the data at http://cohousing.org/directory
to get (for example) a list of cohousing communities with small sites
(<1.5 acres) .

What I'd like on the list is:

name   size   #-units   common-hse-size

Anyone have a way to get that info?

I tried a brute force approach of downloading the html of
248 "complete" pages from ic.org to one file.
Pages like, for example: http://www.ic.org/directory/swans-market-cohousing/
That gets to be a big file 22 Mbytes). I can extract most of what I want but
there is probably a better way. (Common house size is not on complete pages,
it is on the communiy's page at cohousing.org )
(e.g. http://cohousing.org/Swan%27s%20Market%20Cohousing )


In browsing this lists archives
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the closest I came to this was a discussion back in March 2016
Subject: California Cohousing Communities

I did not see anything related to this on
http://www.cohousingresearchnetwork.org/

BTW I did not see any links between these two.

Fred

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