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TechEquity-Collaborative / Voter-Info

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As an engineer, I want a proof of concept that ingests shape files into postGIS shapes/areas so that we know the shapefile->lookup database pipeline can work #6

Closed benmathes closed 6 years ago

benmathes commented 6 years ago

promising stack overflow answer

cheatsheet for the shapefile->postgres tool

juliaschnell commented 6 years ago

In the past I've used pgAdmin to load shapefiles into postgres -- I'll test out connecting that with Heroku.

(Stack overflow help on setting up that connection: post 1, post 2)

benmathes commented 6 years ago

we'll need django models to read/interact with. I went through this tutorial and have most of the scaffolding up and running: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/ref/contrib/gis/tutorial/#importing-spatial-data

right now I need to dig into the format of shapefiles so we can import them into the DB.

benmathes commented 6 years ago

outstanding PR: https://github.com/TechEquity-Collaborative/Voter-Info/pull/28

benmathes commented 6 years ago

PR merged