Node.js - Mapbox Batch Geocoder

mapbox_batch.js reads queries from an input text file, one per line, and constructs parallelized batch queries.

Results are stored in an output directory as JSON files.

Requirements

• queue-async
• through
• A Mapbox access token with batch geocoding capabilities (email sales@mapbox.com)

Installation

npm install

Usage

Command line:

MapboxAccessToken=YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN node mapbox-batch.js input_file.txt /path/to/output/directory

Programmatic:

var fs = require('fs'),
    mapbox = require('./mapbox-batch.js');

var geocoder = mapbox('YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN');
geocoder.on('data', function(data) {
    console.log(data);
});
fs.createReadStream('/path/to/source/data.txt').pipe(geocoder);