Installing the Neo4j Spatial extension

Neo4j Spatial is a library of utilities for Neo4j that facilitates the enabling of spatial operations on the data. Even on the existing data, geospatial indexes can be added and many geospatial operations can be performed on it.

In this recipe, you will learn how to install the Neo4j Spatial extension.

Getting ready

The following steps will get you started with this recipe:

  1. Install the Neo4j graph database using the recipes from Chapter 1, Getting Started with Neo4j. This installation process will depend on your preference for your machine OS type.
  2. Install the dependencies listed in the pom.xml file for this project from https://github.com/neo4j-contrib/spatial/blob/master/pom.xml.
  3. Install Maven using the following ...

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