image-service

This Grails application provides the webservices and backend for the storage of all images in the Atlas. It includes:

Support for large images, generation of thumbnails and tile views
Extensible key/value pair storage for image metadata
Support for subimaging and maintaining the relationships between parent and child images
Exif extraction
Tile view for large images compatible with GIS Javascript clients such as LeafletJS, OpenLayers and Google Maps
Web services for image upload
Generate of derivative images for thumbnail presentation
Tagging support via webservices
Administrator console for image management
Swagger API definition
Integration with google analytics to monitor image usage by data resource
Support for image storage in S3, Swift
Support for batch uploads with AVRO

There are other related repositories to this one:

images-client-plugin - a grails plugin to provide a Javascript based viewer to be used in other applications requiring a image viewer. This viewer is based on LeafletJS.
image-tiling-agent - a utility to run tiling jobs for the image-service. This is intended to used on multiple machine as tiling is CPU intensive and best parallelised.
image-loader - utility for bulk loading images into the image-service.

Upgrading from 1.0

Please see the Upgrading from 1.0 to 1.1 wiki page before upgrading an image-service 1.0 or earlier installation to the latest version.

There are ansible scripts for this applications (and other ALA tools) in the ala-install project. The ansible playbook for the image-service is here

You can also run this application locally by following the instructions on its wiki page

There is a docker-compose YML file that can be used to run postgres locally for local development purposes. To use run:

docker-compose -f postgres.yml up -d

And to shutdown

docker-compose -f postgres.yml kill

There is a docker-compose YML file that can be used to run elastic search locally for local development purposes. To use run:

docker-compose -f elastic.yml up -d

And to shutdown

docker-compose -f elastic.yml kill