Epic Geo

####Background A gem for interfacing with both twitter and OSM data for Project EPIC at University of Colorado Boulder.

####Dependencies Most of the functionality within this gem requires access to project EPIC's NoSQL Mongo database. This will require being on campus or the connected via VPN.

Gem Dependencies

• rgeo - A decently maintained geospatial gem for Ruby. Allows for easy geospatial calculations such as area and length.

• georuby - Another geospatial library for Ruby which offers support for reading and writing shapefiles.

  • geo_ruby/kml is also currently required.

###Installation (Recommended) Pull the latest version of the gem from github:

1. Put the following line in your Gemfile: gem 'epic-geo', github: 'jenningsanderson/epic-geo'
2. Run bundle install

Or via RubyGems (Latest stable build, probably very much outdated): gem install epic-geo