MapZen Exporter

Service used to convert and export Admin boundaries such as MapZen Borders into POSM Extracts expected format.

Setup Guide

You need to do the following:

    $ git clone https://github.com/ehealthafrica/mapzen-exporter && cd mapzen-exporter

    $ virtualenv mapzen_env

    $ source mapzen_env/bin/activate

    $ pip install -r pip-required.txt

    $ cd exporter

    $ cp settings.yaml.temp settings.yaml

Usage

• In settings.yaml set the following:

  • data_dir : full path to the input geojson files directory

  • output_dir: full path to output directory

  • mapzen_file_url: url to online archived file that holds each country's admin boundaries files

  • geojson_dir_name: the path to directory that contains extracted admin boundaries geojson files

  • admin_levels:

    - 2 # Default is 2 for all countries

    - 4 # OSM Admin level for next sub region for a given country e.g 4 for Nigerian States

    - 6 # OSM Admin level for next lower admin level for a given country e.g 6 for Nigerian LGAs

    - 8 #OSM Admin level for next lower admin level for a given country e.g 8 for Nigerian Wards

• To run, while in exporter directory

    $ python exproter.py