Copernicus Mapping Data

Scripts used to extract Copernicus Emergency Management Service Mappings.

Download Shapefiles

The first step is to download the individual shapefiles from Copernicus. As of this writing there are about 500 files to download. A web scraper is provided to automate this process in Copernicus-Mapping-DB/scraper/scraper.py. The scraper depends on the Chrome webdriver for selenium. This StackOverflow answer has some instructions on how to setup the Chrome driver. Alternatively, you can alter the script to use a different driver (Safari, Firefox, etc...).

Files will be downloaded to whatever your browser's default download folder is. On my computer this is ~/Downloads. To avoid confusion, it is best to clean out this folder prior to running the script.

To run, simply:

1. pip install -r requirements.txt
2. ./scraper.py

This will fire up a browser instance and automatically download all files

Generate the SQL Script

Dependencies:

• geojson2postgres - npm install -g geojson2postgres
• ogr2ogr - brew install gdal

Instructions

1. Create a directory called ./files in the root of the Copernicus-Mapping-DB directory
2. ./to_sql.py
3. cat script.sql | psql <db_name