screwgoth / live-location-tracker

May 2018 Python Pune Hackathon project : Live Location Tracking using Mobile GPS Logger

Live Location Tracker

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This is a live location tracker project, taken up during the May 2018 Python Pune Meetup hackathon. Please look at the comment titled Live Location and trip tracking through phone app in the following link: datameet-pune/datameet-pune.github.io#15

Development Setup

Clone this repo

$ git clone [e-mail]:screwgoth/live-location-tracker.git
$ cd live-location-tracker

Create virtual environment (using virtualenvwrapper)

$ mkvirtualenv llt
$ workon llt

Install Django and other Python requirements

(llt)$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Start MySQL Server

You can use any MySQL server. In order to user a Docker container of MySQL DB, use the following command

$ docker run --name llt-db -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=password -e MYSQL_DATABASE=llt-db -p 3306:3306 -d mysql:latest --default-authentication-plugin=mysql_native_password

In any case, please update the DATABASES section in the settings.py under the livelocationtracker folder with appropriate Database name, user, password, host IP and port. The current values are assuming you are using MySQL server using Docker as given above.

Start Django Server

(llt)$ python manage.py makemigrations
(llt)$ python manage.py migrate
(llt)$ python manage.py createsuperuser --username=admin --email=[e-mail]
(llt)$ python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000

You can open your browser to following URLs:

• http://localhost:8000/admin
• http://localhost:8000/api/v1/location

Contributing

• If you want to contribute to the project, first start by creating a Issue or choosing one from the existing issue.
• Fork the repo, create a new branch with your fix and send a Pull Request.
• Alternatively, you can mail me at raseelbhagat [at] gmail [dot] com if you want to get involved.