HistoGIS

About

HistoGIS is a Geographical Information System, workbench and repository to retrieve, collect, create, enrich and preserve historical temporalized spatial data sets. HistoGIS is based upon django, geodjango and djangobaseproject

Install

1. Download or clone this repository.
2. Adapt the information in webpage/metadata.py according to your needs.
3. Create and activate a virtual environment and run pip install -r requirements.txt.

useful commands

cleanup

removes not used vocabs and sources without shapes

python manage.py cleanup

update administrative divisions

updates administrative_division fields according to this google spreadsheet

python manage.py update_amd

building the image

docker build -t histogis:latest . docker build -t histogis:latest --no-cache .

running the image

To run the image you should provide an docker.env file to pass in needed environment variables; see example docker.env in this repo:

docker run -it --network="host" --rm --env-file .env histogis:latest

or use published image:

docker run -it -p 8020:8020 --rm --env-file docker.env acdhch/histogis:latest