Sorry for such a late response, I missed this mail. I must first point out that it seems you are trying to use Neo4j-Spatial in the standalone server version of Neo4j. That is possible, but not well supported. We have only exposed a few of the functions in the server, and do not test it regularly.
The main way we are using neo4j-spatial at the moment is in the embedded version of neo4j. This is where the maven instructions come in because they assume you are writing a Java application that will embed the database. If you are using a java application, and you can start using maven, then everything should be easy to get working. However, since I am relatively sure you are using neo4j-server, I think you are getting into deep water. We need to improve our support for neo4j server more before I can recommend you try it. The next release, 0.7, is focusing on geoprocessing features, and then we hope to expose this in neo4j-server in 0.8. Hopefully then things will be much easier for you. On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 5:24 PM, handloomweaver <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > I wonder if someone would be so kind to help. I'm new to Neo4j and was > trying to install Neo4jSpatial to try its GIS features out. I need to be > clear that I have no experience of Java & Maven so I'm struggling a bit. > > I want to install Neo4j & Spatial once somewhere on my 4GB MacBook Pro. I > have no problem downloading the Neo4j Java Binary and starting it. But I'm > confused about the Spatial library. Looking at the Github page it says > either use Maven or copy a zip file into a folder in Neo4j. Is the zip file > the Github repository contents or something else? > > I've tried the Maven way (mvn install) described on GitHub but I'm firstly > confused about if/where Neo4j is being installed (does it install it first, > where?) and anyway the install fails. It seems to be a JVM Heap memory > problem? Why is it failing. How can I make it not fail. Is it a config file > somewhere needing tweaked? > > http://handloomweaver.s3.amazonaws.com/Terminal_Output.txt > http://handloomweaver.s3.amazonaws.com/surefire-reports.zip > > I'm really keen to use Neo4J spatial but the barrier to entry for the less > technical GIS developer is proving too high for me! > > I'd SO appreciate some help/pointers. I apologise that I am posting such a > NOOB question on your forum but I've exhausted Google searches. > > Thanks > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://neo4j-community-discussions.438527.n3.nabble.com/Problem-Installing-Spatial-Beginner-tp3372924p3372924.html > Sent from the Neo4j Community Discussions mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > Neo4j mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > _______________________________________________ Neo4j mailing list [email protected] https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
