Historical-Census-Mapping

Mapping Historical Census Data.

Installation

Prerequisites

GEOS

sudo apt-get install libgeos-dev

Windows Requirements

You'll need to install the wheels required for shapely. Go here and download the .whl for Shapely that also matches your Python install. For example, if you have x64 bit python you would need win_amd64.whl.

Then, when you get to install the required packages, before installing other packages. Do:

pip install 'C:\where ever downloaded\Shapely-1.6.4.post2-cp38-cp38-win_amd64.whl'

Then you can install the rest of the packages.

Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/skunz42/Historical-Census-Mapping

Creating Virtual Environment

From the root directory of the repository run:

python -m venv ./venv
source ./venv/bin/activate

Install required packages

pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

python mergetool <file1.json> <file2.json> <Merged.json>