Re: [NEW] geo/libpostal

On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 12:07:51AM +0200, Frederic Cambus wrote:

> Finally, here is a new tarball fixing and improving a couple of things:
>
> - Set AUTOCONF_VERSION and AUTOMAKE_VERSION so it builds
> - Add a _libpostal group so users added to that group can easily fetch
> data files
> - The data files are now hosted on GitHub, update MESSAGE so users fetch
> the files from there directly, instead of using libpostal_data which
> doesn't work anymore and spits out lots of errors
> - Do not install libpostal_data as it is currently broken
> - Mention in MESSAGE how much space is needed for the data files
>
> New tarball attached, and diff for infrastructure/db/user.list below.

Ping. Anyone willing to look at this?

It can easily be tested with the bundled address_parser program:

> Berkeley, CA, USA

Result:

{
"city": "berkeley",
"state": "ca",
"country": "usa"
}