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Christiaan van der Merwe edited this page Nov 16, 2018 · 3 revisions

GeoContext

A django project to retrieve information of a point.

View a running instance at http://geocontext.kartoza.com

The latest source code is available at https://github.com/kartoza/geocontext.

Key features

  • Stateless and easy to deploy
  • Able to retrieve context information of a point from several sources (context service registries)
  • Currently work with WFS and WMS sources
  • Using cache mechanism to retrieve context information faster
  • Two level hierarchy (context service registry --> context group --> context collection) for easier to manage
  • Simple API

Project activity

Story queue on Waffle:

  • Stories in Ready
  • Stories in In Progress

Throughput Graph

  • Current test status master: Build Status and Code Health

  • Current test status develop: Build Status and Code Health

Quick Installation Guide

For deployment we use docker so you need to have docker running on the host. GeoContext is a django app so it will help if you have some knowledge of running a django site.

git clone git://github.com/kartoza/geocontext.git
cd geocontext/deployment
cp btsync-db.env.EXAMPLE btsync-db.env
cp btsync-media.env.EXAMPLE btsync-media.env
make build
make permissions
make web
# Wait a few seconds for the DB to start before to do the next command
make migrate
make collectstatic

So as to create your admin account:

make superuser

Loading Data GeoContext use a json file to populate the context service registry and its group and collection. Everything is stored in geocontext.json. You can load it by running this command:

make import-data

Or if you have your own json file, you can load it with:

make import-data FILE_URI=path/to/your/json/file

Be careful, it will replace your context service registry data (and its hierarchy) with your new one from the json file. But no worries, when your run this import-data command, it will export your context service registry data to a new json file.

You can also export your context service registry to json file by running:

make export-data

API

After you have working geocontext instance, you can then check the available API from the API documentation links (you can find it in the main page) or see the content and the hierarchy of context service registry (you can also find the link in the main page)

Participation

We work under the philosophy that stakeholders should have access to the development and source code, and be able to participate in every level of the project - we invite comments, suggestions and contributions. See our milestones list and our open issues list for known bugs and outstanding tasks. You can also chat live with our developers and community members using the link below.

Join the chat at https://gitter.im/kartoza/geocontext

Credits

GeoContext was funded by JRS and developed by Kartoza.com, Freshwater Research Center and individual contributors.

License

GeoContext is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3) as published by the Free Software Foundation.

The full GNU General Public License is available in LICENSE.txt or http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

Disclaimer of Warranty (GPLv3)

There is no warranty for the program, to the extent permitted by applicable law. Except when otherwise stated in writing the copyright holders and/or other parties provide the program "as is" without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The entire risk as to the quality and performance of the program is with you. Should the program prove defective, you assume the cost of all necessary servicing, repair or correction.

Thank you

Thank you to the individual contributors who have helped to build GeoContext:

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