Epic Geo

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Background

A gem for interfacing with both twitter and OSM data for Project EPIC at University of Colorado Boulder.

Dependencies

Most of the functionality within this gem requires access to project EPIC's NoSQL Mongo database. This will require being on campus or the connected via VPN.

Gem Dependencies

  • rgeo - A decently maintained geospatial gem for Ruby. Allows for easy geospatial calculations such as area and length.

  • georuby - Another geospatial library for Ruby which offers support for reading and writing shapefiles.

    • geo_ruby/kml is also currently required.

Installation

(Recommended) Pull the latest version of the gem from github:

  1. Put the following line in your Gemfile: gem 'epic-geo', github: 'jenningsanderson/epic-geo'
  2. Run bundle install

Via RubyGems (Latest stable build): gem install epic-geo