CS4970 Capstone: NationBrowse

Repository for our Fall 2009 capstone project.

Repository structure

For the purposes of the class project, our code lives in the following locations:

• Python-based, project-specific code
• /django_server/server/nationbrowse/
• Templates for HTML, dynamic JS, other dynamically-generated text
• /django_server/templates/
• Static HTML, Javascript, CSS
• /django_server/static/
• In-progress, experimental code
• /sandbox/

(Python) Install Dependencies

These only represent "backend" requirements that must be installed on the server. Client-side libraries (jQuery, OpenLayers, etc) are not covered by this list, since they're included or linked from the codebase.

The basics: data browsing site, without geo-awareness.

• Python 2.5 or 2.6
• SciPy & NumPy
• MatPlotLib
• Python Imaging Library (PIL), maybe. Only if we use Django's ImageField, which is not likely.
• Any Django-supported databae backend. We recommend PostgreSQL.
• But see below regarding GIS database requirements.

For a full experience, including GIS-aware queries and map rendering.

• All of the above, and:
• PostgreSQL (unlike above, this is absolutely required)
• PostGIS extensions to PostgreSQL