dudaerich / mapseries

MapSeries

Mapseries

• Web application for cataloguing mapseries
• Able to automatically fill map sheet metadata and copy it to clipboard for another cataloguing software, e.g. Aleph.

Add new map series

Read manual. Or briefly:

1. Prepare ShapeFile with map sheets.

• Each map sheet should be one polygon.
• Table must have at least SHEET and TITLE columns. SHEET contains unique ID of the sheet within map series. TITLE contains sheet title
• Table might have another attributes, that can be used for filling the template.

2. Add the ShapeFile as a new layer to GeoServer running at http://mapseries.georeferencer.org/geoserver Use mapseries workspace.
3. Create template file in /templates direcory. Find an inspiration in the existing ah-ms3-200.txt template.
4. Add map series metadata to the config.js. Specify at least
   • title: map series title
   • layer: name of the GeoServer layer
   • template: template file created in step 3
5. Get beer

Development

Repository structure based on ol3ds.

Requirements

• Java 7 or higher
  • Windows users: path/to/directory/with/java.exe must be in your PATH system variable
• Python 2.7 (32bit or 64bit; must correspond with node.js because of node-gyp)
  • Windows users: path/to/python/directory and path/to/python/directory/Scripts must be in your PATH system variable
• node.js (32bit or 64bit; must correspond with Python 2.7 because of node-gyp)
• grunt npm install -g grunt-cli
• bower npm install -g bower
• git
  • Windows users: path/to/directory/with/git.exe must be in your PATH system variable

Installation

git clone https://github.com/klokan/mapseries-temap.git mapseries
cd mapseries
npm install
bower install
sudo grunt install (Linux) / grunt install (Windows)

Problems with installation

Windows users: If you have some errors during npm install related to node-gyp, you will probably need to install Microsoft Visual Studio C++ 2012 Express for Windows Desktop and run the installation again.

Development

• grunt to run dev server and open mapseries.html in web browser
  • Edit e.g. content of client/src/js/webpages/mapseries.js and see changes in the browser
• grunt lint to run gjslint
• grunt fix to run fixjsstyle

Build

• grunt build to compile the code and copy files to client/public
• grunt build --map to include also source maps