This is the code to go along with the OpenShift blog piece on how to use Flask (python) with MongoDB to create a REST like web service with spatial data
Create an account at http://openshift.redhat.com/
Create a python-2.6 application and add a MongoDB cartridge to the app
rhc app create -a pythonws -t python-2.6
rhc app cartridge add -a pythonws -c mongodb-2.0
Add this upstream flask repo
cd pythonws
git remote add upstream -m master git://github.com/openshift/openshift-mongo-flask-example.git
git pull -s recursive -X theirs upstream master
Then push the repo upstream
git push
To add the data to the MongoDB instance please follow the instructions on this blog: Mongo Spatial on OpenShift
Be sure to:
- add the data to a collection called parkpoints
- create the spatial index on the documents
Once the data is imported you can now checkout your application at:
http://pythonws-$yournamespace.rhcloud.com