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https://github.com/mattheworiordan/population-estimator
System to estimate number of people living within an area anywhere in the world
https://github.com/mattheworiordan/population-estimator
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System to estimate number of people living within an area anywhere in the world
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/mattheworiordan/population-estimator
- Owner: mattheworiordan
- Created: 2010-01-10T17:43:45.000Z (almost 15 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2010-09-02T11:10:53.000Z (over 14 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-10-12T15:50:49.051Z (3 months ago)
- Language: JavaScript
- Homepage: http://mattheworiordan.com/apps/population-estimator
- Size: 2.08 MB
- Stars: 2
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.rdoc
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README
= Population Estimator
== Overview
Whilst trying to figure out how many people lived within X miles of a city or place, I discovered that there really is no easy way to do this.
This little application aims to solve this problem by obtaining data about populations for countries, states, cities and other areas from public sources, geocoding this, and allowing this data to be used to estimate the number of people within an areea.
== Features
* Imports data from GB, IE and BE using rake tasks. Other areas to be added.
== Dependencies
Lots, check environment.rb for complete list.
== Setup
This is a standard Rails application.
== Database
Can use any database that ActiveRecord supports. All data is populated using rake import:* tasks.
== Meta
Written by Matthew O'Riordan, http://mattheworiordan.com
Algorithms for calculating populations by Matthew WhiteleyReleased under the MIT License: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
http://github.com/mattheworiordan/population-estimator