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NOTE: polipoly is deprecated and no longer maintained. Due to the wide
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availability of better tools like GEOS <http://trac.osgeo.org/geos/> and
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GeoDjango <http://geodjango.org> it is no longer in use nor will it see
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any further development.
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~~~~~~~~~~
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old readme
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~~~~~~~~~~
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polipoly - Python library for dealing with political boundaries. Enables
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programatic conversion of latitudes/longitudes to political districts.
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http://polipoly.googlecode.com/
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polipoly is a project of Sunlight Labs (C) 2007-2008 see LICENSE.txt for details
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Files Included
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==============
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polipoly.py - The polipoly library
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examples/address_to_district.py - Implementation of a webservice for an address
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to district webservice. This is based on the code that runs
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http://api.sunlightlabs.com/places.getDistrictFromAddress
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examples/csvtest.py - Example of batch processing addresses from a csv file.
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Requirements
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============
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python >= 2.4
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pyShapeLib 0.3 (see http://code.google.com/p/polipoly/wiki/ShapeLib)
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Installation
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============
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To install run
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python setup.py install
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which will install the bindings into python's site-packages directory.
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Documentation
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=============
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For documentation view the source itself and the examples included in the
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examples/ subdirectory.
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