Geo-Events

Geo-Events is a geographic tool to enable tracking and organizing of geographic events through a web framework.

API

JSON of geographic layers
http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/v1/layer/?format=json&limit=100

Installation

Startup steps: (about 1 hour total)

For older macs, Install XCode, update to latest, From Preferences->Downloads, install command line tools (or will get clang errors)

(open terminal window)
sudo easy_install pip
Download Postgres.app (google it. After installing, run it - should see an Elephant icon on the toolbar)
sudo pip install virtualenv
virtualenv geoevents_dev
add to: ~/.bash_login:
    export PATH=/Applications/Postgres93.app/Contents/MacOS/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin:$PATH
    export PGHOST=localhost
    export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/X11/lib"
    export CFLAGS="-I/usr/X11/include -I/usr/X11/include/freetype2 -I/usr/X11/include/libpng12"

    source geoevents_dev/bin/activate
(close terminal, open new one)

pip install psycopg2
pip install numpy
install homebrew (from terminal):
    ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go/install)"

brew install postgis
brew install gdal (probably already installed)
brew install libgeoip

pip install Paver

paver install_dependencies
paver create_db
paver create_db_user
paver sync
python manage.py createsuperuser

paver start