From 9b5183f6bed2a2f3c63cd83de7cec20bc05c0549 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michal Migurski Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 17:53:27 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Added README --- tools/make-web-mercator-900913-ready/README.md | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) create mode 100644 tools/make-web-mercator-900913-ready/README.md diff --git a/tools/make-web-mercator-900913-ready/README.md b/tools/make-web-mercator-900913-ready/README.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..173b6a82 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/make-web-mercator-900913-ready/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +Make Web Mercator 900913 Ready +============================== + +Many tools, such as Cascadenik, understand that shapefiles can be found in same-named +zip archives. This tool packages Natural Earth data into a set of zip files and posts +them publicly to a Cascadenik-data S3 bucket, after reprojecting to web Mercator +(900913) and re-encoding all text from Windows-1252 to UTF-8. + +This data could also be used with Mapnik in PostGIS, via shp2pgsql.