It was launched in June 2008.
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It is geography for GIS (aka Geographic Information System).
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yes! just choose the dataset(s) you are interested in on the confirm import page. If you want to import an other dataset later, a workaround is possible
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It depends on the machine and the memory. On a core2 Duo it takes about 40 hours. the importer is useful if you are interested on an custom import(specific placetypes, countries, dataset...), If you don't want to run an import by yourself, because you are interested in all placetypes for all countries, a Postgres dump and a Solr dump can be found here. it will takes only the time to inject the dump into Postgres and copy the Solr dump into the solr directory(~1 hours)
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The import is long because :
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It has been tested on several machines using linux, Windows and various JVMs. Gisgraphy has a high unit/integration test coverage. it is scalable, and heve no memory leak (
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Yes, I plan to keep the development going.
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Me and myself : David Masclet:)
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Java / Spring / Hibernate / Hibernate Spatial / Maven 2 / PostGIS / PostgreSQL / struts2 / SolR-Lucene.
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Gisgraphy is designed and have been tested for Java 1.5 and later .
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Edit the importer.filesToDownload option in the env.properties file. Set the country you want to download, then start gisgraphy, go to the admin menu=>run import . Or, if you don't want Gisgraphy to download files; set the importer.retrieveFiles option to false and put the files you want to process in the 'importer.geonames.dir' directory.
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Yes, just edit the importerConfig.acceptRegExString option. Consult the user guide.
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Yes, you can find some information here.
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It is due to SolR < = > Unix, you need to update the max numbers of open files on your system. See this link and this one for help.
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