Epic Geo
Background
A gem for interfacing with both twitter and OSM data for Project EPIC at University of Colorado Boulder.
Dependencies
Most of the functionality within this gem requires access to project EPIC's NoSQL Mongo database. This will require being on campus or the connected via VPN.
Gem Dependencies
rgeo
- A decently maintained geospatial gem for Ruby. Allows for easy geospatial calculations such as area and length.georuby
- Another geospatial library for Ruby which offers support for reading and writing shapefiles.geo_ruby/kml
is also currently required.
Installation
(Recommended) Pull the latest version of the gem from github:
- Put the following line in your Gemfile:
gem 'epic-geo', github: 'jenningsanderson/epic-geo'
- Run
bundle install
Via RubyGems (Latest stable build):
gem install epic-geo