Advice for others redeploying

[ondrae]

Hi @mertonium

We've been slowly getting requests to redeploy the Public Art Finder in cities all over the country. Anyway I can get a guide or something about what is involved in setting this up? You've got the technical bits in the README, yet how about the data process?

[mertonium]

Hey @ondrae - good question. Timely as well, since I have recently been trying to repurpose/redeploy this code myself.

Big picture: this app is super flexible (:+1:) , but that means that it's harder to address setup issues in a broad manner (:-1:). If anyone has questions about their specific setup, I'd recommend they open an issue here and I can help when possible.

Here are some of the issues I've run into:

• It seems like couchapps have fallen by the wayside in the last 2 years. They still work, I'm just not finding many new sources of information on them.
• Some of the links in the READMEs, etc. are old/don't exist anymore. One in particular was a walkthrough I wrote up about deploying this app in Boston. Yesterday, I reposted it and I'll update the viewer README accordingly.

I'll also note that my fork of this repo has a branch where I'm refactoring the whole front end to use Backbone & React instead of jQuery mobile.

I also recently wrote a node script that will go through every image in a given folder, extract the lat/lng EXIF info, created a smaller version of the image, and upload the records to a couch, if anyone is interested in it (that's my current use case).