From: Michael Orlitzky .
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Changed most of the elements to
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diff --git a/doc/project_overview/index.xhtml b/doc/project_overview/index.xhtml
index 3201609..f7854f8 100644
--- a/doc/project_overview/index.xhtml
+++ b/doc/project_overview/index.xhtml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
One of the foremost goals that must be achieved is to model the
average population density throughout the United States. Using
this data, we would like to be able to calculate the risk
- associated with an event taking place somewhere in the
+ associated with an
event
taking place somewhere in the
United States. This will, in general, be an accident or other
unexpected event that causes some damage to the surrounding
population and environment.
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@
blkidfp00
, which contains the
concatenation of block/state/county/tract. This is our unique
identifier.
blkidfp00
identifier.
@@ -208,16 +208,16 @@
A Postgres/PostGIS database is required to store our Census
- data. The database name is unimportant (default: census),
+ data. The database name is unimportant (default: census
),
but several of the scripts refer to the table names. For
- simplicity, we will call the database census from now on.
+ simplicity, we will call the database census
from now on.
Once the database has been created, we need to import two PostGIS
tables so that we can support the GIS functionality. These two
- files are lwpostgis.sql and
- spatial_ref_sys.sql. See the lwpostgis.sql and
+ spatial_ref_sys.sql
. See the makefile for an example of their import.
Since the shapefiles are in a standard format, we can use
pre-existing tools to import the data in to our SQL
- database. PostGIS provides a binary, shp2pgsql, that will
+ database. PostGIS provides a binary, shp2pgsql
, that will
parse and convert the shapefiles to SQL.
- There is one caveat here: the shp2pgsql program requires
+ There is one caveat here: the shp2pgsql
program requires
an SRID as an argument; this SRID is assigned to each record it
imports. We have designated an SRID of 4269, which denotes
NAD83
, or the North American Datum (1983). There may be
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@
- When the TIGER data is imported via shp2pgsql, a shp2pgsql, a GiST index is added to the geometry column by means of the -I flag. This improves the performance of the