Geopastebin

A simple BSD-licensed Django application for sharing GIS-related pastes such as WKT, EWKT, and GeoJSON. See it in action at http://geopastebin.com/.

Getting started

To run the example project, make sure that you have the requirements below.

Then:

$ cd example_project
$ createdb -T template_postgis geopastebin
$ ./manage.py syncdb
$ ./manage.py runserver

If you would like to override any settings, create a local_settings.py file in example_project. For example, to override the database name:

from settings import *

DATABASES['default]['NAME'] = 'mygeopastebin'

You can also include Geopastebin in your own project by adding it to urls.py:

urlpatterns = patterns('',
...
(r'^geopastebin/', include('geopastebin.urls')),
)

Geopastebin also has basic test coverage:

$ ./manage.py test geopastebin --verbosity=0
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ran 4 tests in 0.323s

OK

Requirements

• Django 1.2.4 or 1.2.X release branch. Older versions may work but are untested.
• PostGIS
• GDAL
• psycopg2
• geojson
• django-olwidget

To Do

• Store created paste uuid in session and allow that user to edit.
• Allow login for editing and keeping track of pastes?
• Give users the option of using olwidget to create or edit their paste.
• Live preview before submit using olwidget.
• Give users control over map display (zoom, etc).
• Determine how to license user-generated content.

Known bugs

• Does not support KML
• Other formats to consider: NMEA, GML, GPX