Added the start-server helper script, and a README file explaining the Pylons app.

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+i. About
+
+The 'maps' directory contains a Pylons[1] project. Pylons is a
+framework for developing web applications in Python. To "run" the
+application, you need to host the maps project on a web
+server. Fortunately, there is a lightweight Python web server provided
+for you that can do this (at least locally.
+
+The command to start the server is,
+
+  paster serve --reload development.ini
+
+which tells the "paster" command that it should load the environment
+contained in the development.ini file. The --reload argument simply
+tells the application to reload automatically if any of its files are
+changed.
+
+A helper script, start-server will run this command for you. By
+default, the web server process will run in the foreground. You can
+tell it to run in the background by ending the command with a '&',
+e.g.,
+
+  ./start-server &
+
+Paster will default to running on http://127.0.0.1:5000, which you can
+visit in your browser.
+
+
+[1] http://pylonshq.com/
+
+
+ii. Installation
+
+Pylons is supplied by most major Linux distributions, but
+unfortunately, we require version 0.9.7 or greater. If your
+distribution has a previous version, you can get away with using
+easy_install to install version 0.9.7. For example, on Ubuntu 9.04,
+
+  sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
+  sudo easy_install Pylons==0.9.7
+
+Here, the first command installs python-setuptools, the package that
+contains the easy_install utility.

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+#!/bin/bash
+
+paster serve --reload development.ini
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