Exporting GIDEON API Data to GeoJSON

Export from R or Python

The GIDEON API endpoint /diseases/outbreaks includes “latitude” and “longitude” columns encoding the GPS coordinates of an outbreak’s location. This endpoint can be accessed from the outbreaks_by_year(<YEAR>) function in both the GIDEON API wrapper for R and Python. In many instances, it may be useful to export and visualize these datasets with GIS software such as ArcGIS Online. One common geographic data structure encoding is GeoJSON.

Upload to ArcGIS

Esri’s ArcGIS Online program supports uploading GeoJSON files as a hosted feature layer. The ArcGIS documentation includes a section on how to Publish a shapefile or GeoJSON file.