Map Server

This houses both the HTML/CSS/JS frontend to render the map with the rover's coordinates, and the backend server that powers it.

Structure

The frontend provides a leafletjs map which draws the rover's position on it. The map renderer uses image files served by server.py, and generated by the generating program in RoverMapTileGenerator.

Running and Integration

You can run the server in standalone mode by running python3 server.py.

To run it from python, import and call start_map_server. The flask app isn't wrapped nicely in a class (this would be a good refactor), so we really need to test this integration and make sure it works.

The server sends the rover's gps coords to the web client, so the server will need to be supplied with those coords. Call update_rover_coords with an array of lat, lng like [38.4065, -110.79147], the center of the mars thingy.

There's an example in example/updater.py to go off of.

Accessing

The server should open to port 5000, so you can access by connecting to 10.0.0.2:5000. That port could change somehow, so you may need to check stdout to find the exact address and port.

Documentation

This SoRo component is a new candidate for documentation! If you know markdown, and have a good idea about what's going on here, please feel free to make a new page about it in the docs! :)