This library is provided as-is, right now. It lacks proper documentation which will probably make it hard for you to use unless you are willing to poke and around and investigate things on your own.
The Shapely 1.5.x requires GEOS >=3.3 (Shapely 1.2.x requires only GEOS 3.1 but YMMV)
see https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Shapely
Before You Install Shapely ** Make Sure You Have Installed LIBGEOS **
Windows users should download an executable installer from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#shapely or PyPI (if available).
brew install geos
apt-get install libgeos-dev
make sure that libgeos is on the system library path and then install Shapely from the Python package index. $ pip install shapely
import mapzen.whosonfirst.search
import mapzen.whosonfirst.utils
idx = mapzen.whosonfirst.search.index()
source = os.path.abspath(options.source)
crawl = mapzen.whosonfirst.utils.crawl(source)
for path in crawl:
try:
idx.index_file(path)
except Exception, e:
logging.error("failed to index %s, because %s" % (path, e))
# Or this:
# rsp = idx.index_files(crawl)
$> cd /usr/local/mapzen/whosonfirst-venue/
$> git pull origin master
$> /usr/local/bin/wof-es-index -s /usr/local/mapzen/whosonfirst-venue/data/ -b
GeoJSON geometry elements are not included in any responses by default. This is by design for performance reasons.
This is not meant for doing spatial queries. No. There is a separate py-mapzen-whosonfirst-spatial package that will makes happy with PostGIS and together they make beautiful spatial lookup. This is not that package.