Use Mapzen Who's On First for unique location lookup (and more?)

robhawkes commented 8 years ago

As we've spoken about before, it makes sense to look into how Who's On First could be used with the Polygon City CLI, for example:

Using a local Who's On First instance to do geo lookups, offline
Storing the unique IDs and other data from WoF within each building representation
Using the IDs from WoF to help generate unique IDs for buildings (see #4)
Other stuff we haven't thought of yet

robhawkes commented 8 years ago

An initial implementation of this has been completed and has been pushed to the repo and NPM (0.1.13). It queries a Who's On First endpoint provided via the -w option in the CLI (without a trailing slash) and add the WoF results to the GeoJSON.

For example:

polygon-city -e 31255 -m "elevation-key" -w "http://wof.somedomain.com" -o /path/to/output/dir/ /path/to/input.gml

It's really slow at the moment due to rate limiting on the private API, so I've set the CLI to only process one WoF request at a time. We can increase this if and when the rate limits change.

meetar commented 8 years ago

Marking as complete barring a decision about unique building ids

polygon-city / polygon-city-cli

Use Mapzen Who's On First for unique location lookup (and more?) #10