A client webapp for Polaric Server. It mainly designed as a library/application framework that can be instantiated as specific applications, though it is mainly configured as a tracking-application using a Polaric Server backend. Currently, the following modules are being implemented.
- Core (mapbrowser). A basic map-browser that can be set up with map layers and with a framework for popup widgets.
- Layer Editor. Widgets for letting the user edit his/her own map-layers (currently supporting WFS, WMS and GPX file upload).
- Feature Editor. Drawing polygons, lines and circles. Icon markings. Uses aprsd w/database-plugin to store features.
- Trackers/objects as features in a map-layer. It uses the Polaric-aprsd backend to get updates wia websocket and JSON.
- System-admin utilities for the Polaric-aprsd backend.
This software is currently running on http://aprs.no. A mobile-app 'Arctic Mapper' is based on the webapp2 code and available on Goggle Play.
The Javscript code in 'application.js' is used to compose a running application. 'config.js' is used to configure it with map layers, etc. 'index.html' is a starting-point for a minified version. Use 'index-dev.html' for development-mode (and include the source code).
Feel free to experiment with setups. The directory 'examples' may contain alternative application configurations. Currently very simple ones without using the Polaric-Server backend. Feel free to contribute.
A binary deb package (built on Debian bookworm) is available. It installs the software assuming that a Polaric-aprsd backend is installed on the same machine. The config files for the webapp and mapcache are placed in /etc/polaric-webapp2. See https://polaricserver.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html
The Makefile is used in building Debian packages, but could be used to install the software directly on your system for use with a Polaric Server backend. Modify the Makefile too your needs first, then type 'make' and 'sudo make install'.
To run it, copy or move the content of this directory to a directory that can be accessed through a web-server. Copy the files in one of the example directories to the root web-directory (or use the script setup.sh) and edit 'config.js' and possibly 'application.js' to suit your needs.
For testing and development, point your browser at index-dev.html. It runs the source code directly.
For production installations you may use compile-js.sh to minify the javascript code (and point the browser to index.html). To use a minified version of application.js, you will need to edit index.html.
Edit the file 'config.js' to suit your needs. Here you can set up various map sources, backends, etc.. I am sorry little documentation at the moment but some explanations in the file. The config for aprs.no is provided as an example.
Contributions and hacks are welcome. Or fell free to tell us what you think. It is based on OpenLayers 7 and Ecmascript 6 (2015) version of Javascript and uses namespaces. We hope to migrate to ES6 modules in not too long time.
This is free software. License is GNU Affero General Public License. See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.