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+FROM python:3.5
+
+RUN mkdir -p /provisioning
+WORKDIR /provisioning
+
+# Install build dependencies
+RUN apt-get update && \
+    apt-get -yq install \
+        build-essential \
+        gcc \
+        libgeos-dev \
+        zlib1g-dev && \
+    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+# build HDF5
+RUN echo "Installing HDF5..." && \
+    mkdir -p /provisioning/hdf5 && \
+    cd /provisioning/hdf5 && \
+    curl -# -O https://support.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/prev-releases/hdf5-1.8.17/src/hdf5-1.8.17.tar.gz && \
+    tar -xzf hdf5-1.8.17.tar.gz && \
+    cd hdf5-1.8.17 && \
+    ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/ && \
+    make -j$(python -c 'import multiprocessing; print(multiprocessing.cpu_count())') && \
+    make install && \
+    ldconfig && \
+    rm -rf /provisioning/hdf5
+
+# also need libgeos for Shapely, Pandana
+RUN echo "Installing Spatial Index library..." && \
+    mkdir -p /provisioning/spatialindex && \
+    cd /provisioning/spatialindex && \
+    curl -# -O http://download.osgeo.org/libspatialindex/spatialindex-src-1.8.5.tar.gz && \
+    tar -xzf spatialindex-src-1.8.5.tar.gz && \
+    cd spatialindex-src-1.8.5 && \
+    ./configure --prefix=/usr/local && \
+    make -j$(python -c 'import multiprocessing; print(multiprocessing.cpu_count())') && \
+    make install && \
+    ldconfig && \
+    rm -rf /provisioning/spatialindex*
+
+RUN echo "Installing GEOS library..." && \
+    mkdir -p /provisioning/geos && \
+    cd /provisioning/geos && \
+    curl -# -O http://download.osgeo.org/geos/geos-3.5.1.tar.bz2 && \
+    tar -xjf geos-3.5.1.tar.bz2 && \
+    cd geos-3.5.1 && \
+    ./configure && \
+    make -j$(python -c 'import multiprocessing; print(multiprocessing.cpu_count())') && \
+    make install && \
+    ldconfig -v && \
+    rm -rf /provisioning/geos*
+
+RUN echo "Installing Proj4 library..." && \
+    mkdir -p /provisioning/proj4 && \
+    cd /provisioning/proj4 && \
+    curl -# -O http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-4.9.3.tar.gz && \
+    tar -xzf proj-4.9.3.tar.gz && \
+    cd proj-4.9.3 && \
+    ./configure && \
+    make -j$(python -c 'import multiprocessing; print(multiprocessing.cpu_count())') && \
+    make install && \
+    ldconfig -v && \
+    rm -rf /provisioning/proj4
+
+# basemap (incorrectly) requires numpy to be installed *before* installing it
+RUN pip install --upgrade numpy
+
+RUN echo "Installing Basemap plotting library..." && \
+    mkdir -p /provisioning/matplotlib-basemap && \
+    cd /provisioning/matplotlib-basemap && \
+    curl -# -o basemap-1.0.7rel.tar.gz https://codeload.github.com/matplotlib/basemap/tar.gz/v1.0.7rel && \
+    tar -xzf basemap-1.0.7rel.tar.gz && \
+    cd basemap-1.0.7rel && \
+    python setup.py install && \
+    rm -rf /provisioning/matplotlib-basemap
+
+RUN mkdir -p /provisioning/urbanaccess
+COPY . /provisioning/urbanaccess
+
+# can now install Urban Access via repo
+RUN cd /provisioning/urbanaccess && \
+    pip install .