[Talk-ca] Setting up RoadMatcher and creating shapefiles

[Adam Dunn]

I know the installation of JUMP on Linux is a little ambiguous, as the
documentation for jump says that you just unzip and run. Reading through the
RoadMatcher-unix-2.sh startup script, I can see that it is not quite this
simple (or there is some installation documentation that I missed). When you
download the zip file for Roadmatcher, you can put that anywhere you like (I
have it in my home directory). Then you have to copy the lib directory over
to /usr/local/jump/ (meaning you will have to make an empty directory called
jump, and then copy the lib directory into it. I'm assuming you know the
basics of Debian, like how to run as root so that you can access /usr/local
and how to move files around with root privileges. Finally, for some reason,
the actual files for Roadmatcher are stored in lib/ext/roadmatcher, but they
need to be in lib/ext/ instead. So you will have:
Before:
/usr/local/jump/lib/
                         |->bsh-2.0b1.jar
                         |->Jama-1.0.1.jar
                         |->etc....
                         |->/ext
                                |->/roadmatcher
                                           |->jcommon-0.8.4.jar
                                           |->jfreechart-0.9.9.jar
                                           |->roadmatcher-1.4.jar

After:
/usr/local/jump/lib/
                         |->bsh-2.0b1.jar
                         |->Jama-1.0.1.jar
                         |->etc....
                         |->/ext
                                |->jcommon-0.8.4.jar
                                |->jfreechart-0.9.9.jar
                                |->roadmatcher-1.4.jar
You can then have the rest of the roadmatcher zip file anywhere you please,
make bin/RoadMatcher-unix-2.sh set to be executable, and then all should
run. Alternatively, you can edit the startup script to use directories that
you choose (by changing the values for JUMPHOME= and for JUMP_PLUGIN_DIR=).

This should get jump+roadmatcher working for you.

I'm writing this all from memory, but I did this on an Ubuntu machine, and
can hopefully answer other questions you may have.

Adam

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Sam Dyck <samueldyck at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> Sorry to ask for help, but I really want to start importing Geobase data
> for Manitoba and Saskatchewan. If someone is able to help me install
> RoadMatcher on (open)JUMP and create Shapefiles from OSM data on a Debian
> GNU/Linux system. Again, if it is such an odious task forget it. But to the
> best of knowledge there is no one importing data for these provinces, and it
> would allow me to focus on other features of the map if this data was
> imported.
> Thanks
>
> Sam D.
>
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