U.S. Shapes Indexer

Retrieve, convert, and index shapefiles (and suggestions based on those files) from census.gov and Zillow

Usage

run.py [-h <elasticsearch-host>]  [-p <elasticsearch-port>] [--use-online-ogre]

Dependencies:

• Elasticsearch
• pyes
• ogre (Optional. See below)
• GDAL (Optional. See below)

How to install Elasticsearch

Read the docs, yo

How to install pyes

pip install pyes

ogre and GDAL

ESIndexer needs these libraries for converting shapefiles to GeoJSON files. However, there is an ogre instance available online that will obviate the need for a local install of these libraries. The problem with that option, though, is that converting large shapefiles will be a very slow process, and you might even bring down their server.

It is recommended that you install these libraries locally.