Local Crimes Map
A Django project that displays crime data from the data.police.uk RESTful API on a map, and as a report style breakdown. The crime data from the report style breakdown is then saved in a PostGIS.
This project is deployed on here.
Important Info
This project uses the dj_database_url package to set the database connection in settings.py. This connection string must be specified in a .env file that should be placed in the localcrimesmap directory, following the format of the example below.
DATABASE_URL=postgis://{DBUSERNAME}:{DBPASSWORD}@localhost:{PORT}/{DBNAME}
'SECRETKEY'and 'DJANGODEBUG' must also be set as a string enviroment variables
GDAL must be installed on whatever machine you are running this project on.
Docker
There is a docker-compose file to launch the two required services for the app (the Django web app, and the postgres database). You'll need to create a .env file within the /src directory with the required environment variables for the docker-compose file.
The docker-compose.yaml is specific to its deployment environment, for instance being available in an external network used by a reverse proxy.
Once deployed, you can run the migrations using:
docker-compose run localcrimesmap_webapp python manage.py migrate