For non-US cities, the population information the analysis gets from the Census isn't available. Rebecca has been manually creating population files in a compatible format and overriding the analysis (i.e. by modifying the code and running it locally) to use them. We want to add a parameter for providing them to the analysis. It should work similarly to the "OSM extract URL" parameter, where we don't upload the file when submitting the job, we just provide an URL where it can be found (like a public URL for a file on S3).
The intention, at least at this point, is for the input files to already be formatted in the way the analysis expects, i.e. this will change where/how the analysis gets them but not how it processes them. We'll need to get some sample population files from Rebecca for testing.
For non-US cities, the population information the analysis gets from the Census isn't available. Rebecca has been manually creating population files in a compatible format and overriding the analysis (i.e. by modifying the code and running it locally) to use them. We want to add a parameter for providing them to the analysis. It should work similarly to the "OSM extract URL" parameter, where we don't upload the file when submitting the job, we just provide an URL where it can be found (like a public URL for a file on S3).
The intention, at least at this point, is for the input files to already be formatted in the way the analysis expects, i.e. this will change where/how the analysis gets them but not how it processes them. We'll need to get some sample population files from Rebecca for testing.