Greenline

Greenline (aka Interactive Somerville) is a tool for visualizing issues, asking questions, learning facts, and contributing ideas related to the Greenline Extension Project in Somerville, MA.

Fresh Start

This is a fresh start, intentended to migrate the existing code base to Pinax 0.9 fresh-start.

A Pinax basic project served as starting point.

Installation and getting started

Create a virtual environment (recommended)

Follow documentation at virtualenv.

Checkout the project

$ git clone git://github.com/cspanring/greenline.git

Install all project requirements (Django, Pinax, etc.):

$ cd greenline
$ pip install -r requirements/project.txt

Install PostgreSQL/PostGIS and geographic libaries

$ sudo apt-get install binutils python-setuptools postgresql-8.4-postgis postgresql-server-dev-8.4 python-psycopg2 gdal-bin python-gdal libproj-dev

Create PostGIS template

...on Ubuntu 10.10 with PostGIS 1.5 for instance:

$ sudo su postgres
$ POSTGIS_SQL_PATH=/usr/share/postgresql/8.4/contrib/postgis-1.5
$ createdb -E UTF8 template_postgis
$ createlang -d template_postgis plpgsql
$ psql -d postgres -c "UPDATE pg_database SET datistemplate='true' WHERE datname='template_postgis';"
$ psql -d postgres -c "update pg_database set datistemplate = false where datname = 'template_postgis';"
$ psql -d template_postgis -f     $POSTGIS_SQL_PATH/postgis.sql
$ psql -d template_postgis -f     $POSTGIS_SQL_PATH/spatial_ref_sys.sql
$ psql -d template_postgis -c "GRANT ALL ON geometry_columns TO PUBLIC;"
$ psql -d template_postgis -c "GRANT ALL ON spatial_ref_sys TO PUBLIC;"
$ psql -d template_postgis -c "GRANT ALL ON geography_columns TO PUBLIC;"

Create greenline database user

$ createuser greenline
$ #Shall the new role be a superuser? (y/n) n
$ #Shall the new role be allowed to create databases? (y/n) y
$ #Shall the new role be allowed to create more new roles? (y/n) n
$ psql
$ ALTER ROLE greenline WITH password 'password';
$ \q
$ exit

Create new user greenline

$ sudo adduser greenline

Create greenline database

$ sudo su - greenline
$ createdb greenline -T template_postgis

Add your database configuration

.. to settings.py or create a local_settings.py (recommended)

Syncronize database and run the development server

$ python manage.py syncdb
$ python manage.py runserver

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