Address Information System (AIS)

AIS provides a unified view of City data for an address.

Goals

• Simplify relationships between land records, real estate properties, streets, and addresses
• Provide a way of standardizing addresses citywide
• Support applications that require geocoding and address-based data lookups
• Provide a feedback mechanism for continually improving parity between department datasets
• Deprecate legacy systems for geocoding and address standardizing

Components

• geocoder
• address standardizer (see passyunk)
• integration environment for address-centric data
• API

Development

To develop locally:

1. git clone https://github.com/CityOfPhiladelphia/ais
2. cd ais
3. Create and activate a virtualenv.
4. pip install -r requirements.txt. You may have to work through installing some dependencies by hand, especially on Windows.
5. Copy Passyunk data files. See README for more instructions.
6. Create an empty file at /ais/instance/config.py. To run engine scripts, you'll need to add dictionary to this called DATABASE mapping database names to connection strings. (TODO: commit sample instance config)
7. Rename .env.sample in the root directory to .env and add real environment settings. (TODO: commit .env.sample)
8. honcho start. This will start start serving over port 5000. Note that this is blocked on CityNet, so you'll have to be on a public network to access http://0.0.0.0:5000.