Recipe catalog

Recipes provide the instructions for data processing in openplaces.

They define where a dataset comes from and how it is processed.

Recipes are dictionaries of arguments, saved as a .yaml file.

For an explanation of the arguments you can find in a recipe, see writing recipes.

The whole catalog is auto-generated from src/openplaces/recipes.

191

recipes

124

data sources

10

countries

90

geographies

The three maps below cover data ingestion recipes – the recipes that download and structure each entity type’s raw source data, one entity type at a time. Maps are stacked full width, cropped to the covered area, so coverage stays legible even where it is a single county.

Admin

Buildings

Parcels

Ingested footprints and parcels are then linked together in harmonize and curate. The map below is that linked entity’s recipe coverage – US only for now – rather than ingestion; note that a country-scoped recipe colors the whole country, which is coarser than the counties actually curated.

Footprints linked to parcels (harmonize / curate, US only)

Geographies

Pick a country to see its own recipes and, where available, drill down into its states/regions and counties. A blank cell means no recipe of that kind exists yet for that geography – not that the underlying data doesn’t exist.

Recipes by geography

Geography	Recipes	Admin	Parcels	Properties	Buildings	Sales
United States	152	16	83	15	20	10
Colombia	7	2	5
United Kingdom	5	3
France	2	1
Germany	2	1
Brazil	1	1
Japan	1	1
Philippines	1	1
Russia	1	1
Turkey	1	1
Global	18	8			3

Recipe statistics

Pipeline stages

Recipes by stage

Stage	Recipes
ingest	169
harmonize	11
enrich	7
curate	4

What the recipes describe

Entities

Type	Recipes
admin	36
building	3
dwelling	1
footprint	20
image	2
parcel	88
property	15
tile	7
transaction	10

Datasets

Theme	Recipes
land-elevation	1
landcover-annual	1
landcover-change	1
population	2
reference	4

Source terms

154 of 191 recipes (81%) record their source terms. Of these, 16 restrict redistribution and 0 prohibit resale while allowing free sharing. Unrecorded sources indicate terms that have not yet been verified, rather than unrestricted terms (see the recipe writing guide).