Hootenanny was developed to provide an open source, standards-based approach to geospatial vector data conflation. Hootenanny is designed to facilitate automated and semi-automated conflation of critical foundation GEOINT features in the topographic domain, namely roads (polylines), buildings (polygons), and points-of-interest (POI's) (points). Conflation happens at the dataset level, where the user's workflow determines the best reference dataset and source content, geometry and attributes, to transfer to the output map.

If you have any support questions please contact Hootenanny.Help@DigitalGlobe.com.

Hootenanny has been tested on both CentOS/RHEL 6.5 and Ubuntu 14.04. Ubuntu 14.04 receives more active development and more streamlined installation instructions. Please see Hootenanny - Developers Guide.pdf for detailed instructions on Ubuntu 14.04. Both sets of instructions are tailored to an audience that is deeply familiar with scripting and install procedures on Linux.

System Administrators who would like to install on CentOS/RHEL 6.5 should follow the Hootenanny - Installation Instructions.pdf.

For those Ubuntu 14.04 users who wish to follow a more streamed-lined set of instructions, please refer to the Vagrant (VM container) set up instructions in the Developers Guide. There is currently no Vagrant set up for CentOS/RHEL 6.5 so if you wish to use that environment please contact us at Hootenanny.Help@DigitalGlobe.com.

Hootenanny was developed at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) in collaboration with DigitalGlobe. The government has "unlimited rights" and is releasing this software to increase the impact of government instruments by providing developers with the opportunity to take things in new directions. The software use, modification, and distribution rights are stipulated within the GNU General Public License. The GPL license is available in LICENSE.txt

All pull requests contributions to this project will be released under the GNU General Public License 3.0. Software source code previously released under an open source license and then modified by NGA staff is considered a "joint work" (see 17 USC 101); it is partially copyrighted, partially public domain, and as a whole is protected by the copyrights of the non-government authors and must be released according to the terms of the original open source license.

Licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html.

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Imagery provided by permission from DigitalGlobe. Users are responsible for complying with terms of use for data and imagery they use in conjunction with Hootenanny. Specifically, the must properly protect and comply with all legal, copyright, and licensing terms.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

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