GeoDjango Boilerplate for Easy Project Setup

For Quickly Getting Started

This project includes :

1. Command for renaming project
2. Bash script of gdal and psycopg2 installation
3. Postgres database enabled django project
4. Location as sample model and leaflet configuration for django admin
5. Django-restframework-GIS with sample model and Geojson API view

Install Python3, pip and virtualenv first

Skip this, step if you already have one

sudo apt-get install python3
sudo apt-get install -y python3-pip
sudo apt install python3-virtualenv

Create your virtual env

virtualenv myenv
source ./myenv/bin/activate

Clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/itskshitiz321/geodjangotemplate.git

Navigate to this repo

chmod +x library.sh
./library.sh
ogrinfo --version

Change the GDAL verision in requirements.txt if your installed version is different from default one (gdal version can be checked from previous command ogrinfo--version

pip install -r requirements.txt

Download Postgres interactive installer

https://www.enterprisedb.com/downloads/postgres-postgresql-downloads

Now change the postgresql version that you have downloaded and run this command

chmod +x ./postgresql-10.14-1-linux-x64.run
sudo ./postgresql-10.14-1-linux-x64.run

Install postgis extension as well from stack builder

Rename your project with following command

python manage.py rename <your_current_projectname> <new_project_name> 
eg:python manage.py rename djangoproject newproject

Now change your username , password and db name in settings.py accordingly to your database

python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate
python manage.py runserver

For Anaconda User

conda env create -f environment.yml

Now follow from renaming the project