README.md

PathEditor

Django based server-tool to manage historic map data.

Requirements

• Django
• Python 3
• pip3 Paket manager
• Postgresql database + user

First setup

1. start postgres: systemctl start postgres and create a user owning a databace
2. in OHDM/settings.py search for DATABASES and change the USER- and NAME-field to match your database. Finally replace the ENGINE-value with django.db.backends.postgresql
3. Replace the path inside STATICFILES_DIRS to amtch the servers architecture.
4. Use manage.py to populate the databse and migrate the changes. --1. manage.py makemigrations --2. manage.py migrate
5. Finally start the server with manage.py runserver

Web UI Navigation

The three datatypes cann be accessed via the top-bar menu, which forwards to a complete list of items. The main-URLs resolve as followed:

• /geom/ lists Geometries
• /obg/ lists Geometry Objects
• /path/ lists Paths

Further Information

can be fond in the pdf-file within the repository. It explains the API and shows example diagrams.

• https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/index.html Postgres Help
• https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/ Django Help
• https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/installing-packages/ Pip Help