polipoly/README.txt
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polipoly - Python library for dealing with political boundaries. Enables
programatic conversion of latitudes/longitudes to political districts.
http://polipoly.googlecode.com/
polipoly is a project of Sunlight Labs (C) 2007 see LICENSE.txt for details
Files Included
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polipoly.py - The polipoly library
examples/address_to_district.py - Implementation of a webservice for an address
to district webservice. This is based on the code that runs
http://api.sunlightlabs.com/places.getDistrictFromAddress
examples/csvtest.py - Example of batch processing addresses from a csv file.
Requirements
============
python >= 2.4
pyShapeLib 0.3 (see http://code.google.com/p/polipoly/wiki/ShapeLib)
Installation
============
To install run
python setup.py install
which will install the bindings into python's site-packages directory.
Documentation
=============
For documentation view the source itself and the examples included in the
examples/ subdirectory.