[OSM-dev] TIGER import.rb

James Marca jmarca at translab.its.uci.edu
Wed Jun 20 18:08:02 BST 2007


On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 11:02:49PM -0700, Dave Hansen scribeth thusly:
> On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 10:07 +0100, Andy Robinson wrote:
> > Dave Hansen wrote:

...
> 
> Right now, there's no real geometry calculations in the whole thing.  Is
> there any ruby code for doing the angle calculations handy somewhere?
> 

If you download the latest GEOS code ([2007/02/02] geos-3.0.0rc4) from
http://geos.refractions.net/, you can build Ruby and Python bindings
(./configure --enable-ruby --enable-python)

That should give access to a fully featured geometry library in Ruby,
although I haven't used it from Ruby.

James




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