Madonie open data: events, villages, trails and places to stay

What can I download?

Five datasets, each as JSON and CSV, plus the event calendars in iCal format (.ics): one with all events, one for each town and one for each category. The files only contain data that also appears on the site’s pages, with its source. Every row links to the matching page in every language where it exists (url_it, url_en, url_es, url_fr, url_de). Field names are in Italian, as in our content system; the table below explains them.

Which licences apply?

Dataset	Licence	Credit line
Events, villages	CC BY 4.0	Le Madonie (lemadonie.it)
Trails, places to stay, places to eat	ODbL 1.0	© OpenStreetMap contributors; processing by Le Madonie (lemadonie.it)

We check events one by one against the official source (town council, organiser, Pro Loco): each edition carries the link to the source and the date of the check. Village population is the ISTAT estimate given in the village page, with its reference date in the popolazione_nota field.

How often are the files updated?

Every time the site is published: at least once a day, with the morning article. On Mondays the editors recheck the events of the following eight weeks and rebuild places to stay and eat from the latest OpenStreetMap extract. Every file says when it was generated: the generato field in the JSON, the last column of the CSV and the DTSTAMP field in the calendars.

Which fields are there?

Dataset	Main fields
Events (one row per edition)	nome (name), categoria, comune (town), luogo (venue), lat, lon, anno (year), inizio (start), fine (end), stato (programmato, rinviato, annullato: scheduled, postponed, cancelled), edizione_attuale (current edition), programma, fonte_ufficiale (official source), verificato (checked on)
Villages	nome, quota_m (altitude), lat, lon (town centre, approximate), parco_delle_madonie, popolazione (population), popolazione_nota, popolazione_fonte
Trails	nome, difficolta_cai (T, E, EE, EEA), partenza (start), partenza_lat, partenza_lon, distanza_km_indicativa (approximate distance), tempo_indicativo (approximate time, stops excluded), stagioni (seasons), osm_relazione
Places to stay and eat	nome, tipo (type), comune, indirizzo (address), lat, lon, telefono, email, sito (website), orari_osm (opening_hours format), osm, verificato

Dates use the YYYY-MM-DD format. An empty field means the information is missing or not verified: we never estimate it.

How do I use them?

• Calendar. Copy the address of an .ics file and add it to your calendar as a calendar “from URL” (in Google Calendar: Other calendars, From URL). It then updates on its own when we change a date.
• Spreadsheet. The CSV files are UTF-8 with a comma as separator: LibreOffice Calc and Excel open them with the right accents.
• Code. The JSON has the rows in the dati field and the list of fields in campi. An example in Python:

import pandas as pd
events = pd.read_csv("https://www.lemadonie.it/dati/eventi.csv")
print(events[events.edizione_attuale][["nome", "comune", "inizio"]])

The list of datasets with licences and file addresses is also available in machine-readable form, in the JSON catalogue.

What is not included?

GPX tracks of the trails: they are maintained by sentierisiciliani.it, and the link to the technical page is in the scheda_tecnica field. There are no weather forecasts, which you can get directly from Open-Meteo, and no personal data: for places to stay and eat we only include the public contact details found on OpenStreetMap.