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geocommons / geocoder

Modular Street Address Geocoder
http:///www.geocommons.com
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0
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Is this functional on windows? #32

Open mitchmeyer1 opened 11 years ago

mitchmeyer1 commented 11 years ago

There is no instructions about windows installation, only Linux. Is it even possible?

tanderegg commented 11 years ago

The basic ruby library should work on any platform, although I haven't tried it on Windows, so it's possible will be some modifications needed.

The main difference will be the database import scripts in /build, which are Linux bash scripts. Those won't work on Windows, so you'd have to write your own method for importing the raw TIGER/Line data into a SQLite database of the proper structure.

The small REST API is written for Sinatra, so you'd have to use the Thin webserver to run it locally, but that shouldn't be a problem.