A Pelias Importer for Authoritative NYC Addresses. Part of the NYC Geosearch Geocoder Project
The NYC Geosearch API is built on Pelias, the open source geocoding engine that powered Mapzen Search.
We are treating the normalization of the PAD data as a separate data workflow from Pelias Import. This script picks up the output of labs-geosearch-pad-normalize and imports it into the Pelias elasticsearch database.
You will need the following things properly installed on your computer.
- Git
- Node.js (with NPM)
- An elasticsearch database at
localhost:9200with the pelias index already created - Pelias API running at
localhost:4000 - Pelias PIP service with NYC whosonfirst data running at
localhost:4200. PIP is used to lookup admin boundaries for each record before it enters the database.
Refer to the README in labs-geosearch-dockerfiles for more about running the script
The importer has two main functions, downloading the raw data and running the import:
npm run download downloads the normalized pad data and stores in the data directory specified in pelias.json
npm start reads the downloaded csv and imports each row into the pelias elasticsearch database.
To load a simple leaflet map with an autocomplete search control, run npm run map-test and point your browser to http://localhost:8000. This simple page expects the pelias API to be running at http://localhost:4000