MapCampus

MapCampus is a web application that visualizes the mapping data collected by the University of Illinois Geographic Information Systems club. Built with a combination of Django, NetworkX, and Tastypie on the backend, and AngularJS and Bootstrap on the frontend.

Building MapCampus

1. Install PostgreSQL
   • Will need psycopg2 to work properly with Django.

• Read the PostgreSQL tutorials for your OS of choice to initialize your database.

2. Install PostGIS

• Make sure you install the PostGIS extensions in your PostgresSQL database. Topology extensions optional.

3. Setup virtualenv and install requirements.

• Follow the virtualenv tutorial to setup a new env folder in your mapcampus directory.
• Run pip install -r reqs.txt to install the required python packages.

4. Run syncdb to create tables for all apps not managed by South.

• Make sure you create a superuser too, even if the admin interface may be removed at a later date.

5. Run initial schema migrations.

• Open a terminal and run python manage.py schemamigration [appname] --initial for every app you want to initialize.

6. Start up Django!

Authors

Yihua Lou

• lou13@illinois.edu

Varun Goel

• goel4@illinois.edu