[ckan-dev] GeoJSON-preview in CKAN, possible?

Fri Jun 14 17:24:27 UTC 2013

This is now merged into ckanext-spatial (both stable and master
versions) and can be seen in action here:

http://demo.ckan.org/dataset/test-preview-geojson/resource/d4c2ea84-2709-42b9-8f8d-ec5adeaf0fb3

Great work Dominik!

Adrià

On 14 June 2013 10:16, Dominik Moritz <dominik.moritz at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hey Henrik,
>
> Since the geojson preview is not on master yet, you will have to run this pip command after you have activated your virtual env:
>
> pip install -e git+https://github.com/okfn/ckanext-spatial.git@21-geojson-preview#egg=ckanext-spatial
>
> Of course, you can also wait for the pull request to be merged into master.
>
> Cheers,
> Dominik
>
>
> On 14 Jun 2013, at 10:38, Nigel Babu <nigel.babu at okfn.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Henrik,
>>
>> To activate the python virtualenv in a packge install, do the following:
>>
>> sudo su
>> source /usr/lib/ckan/default/bin/activate
>>
>> Then you can install the packages into the virtualenv like so:
>>
>> pip install -e git+
>> https://github.com/okfn/ckanext-spatial.git@stable#egg=ckanext-spatial
>>
>> Alternatively, you can directly use the following:
>>
>> sudo /usr/lib/ckan/default/bin/pip -e git+
>> https://github.com/okfn/ckanext-spatial.git@stable#egg=ckanext-spatial
>>
>> Please feel free to email the list in case you face trouble.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> On 14 June 2013 11:34, Henrik Aagaard Sørensen <BU1G at tmf.kk.dk> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Domonik.
>>>
>>> Cool, that looks great.
>>>
>>> I don't know if this is too much to ask, please let me know if it is.
>>> However, I tried to read the REAMDE on how to install ckanext-spatial and
>>> it only told how to when using python enviroment etc. and I've installed
>>> CKAN via packages using Apache etc.
>>>
>>> Do you know how to install it when running production?
>>>
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>>> Emne: Re: [ckan-dev] GeoJSON-preview in CKAN, possible?
>>>
>>> Hi Henrik,
>>>
>>> I wrote an extension today and submitted a pull request to ckanext-spatial
>>> [1].
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>> Dominik
>>>
>>>
>>> [1] https://github.com/okfn/ckanext-spatial/pull/21
>>>
>>> On 13 Jun 2013, at 16:11, Adrià Mercader <adria.mercader at okfn.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Henrik,
>>>>
>>>> There is not an existing extension that can display GeoJSON.
>>>>
>>>> It should be quite easy to implement as a custom preview using the
>>>> IResourcePreview extension [1] and Leaflet or OpenLayers as backend.
>>>> The implementation would be similar to this basic WMS previewer on the
>>>> spatial extension [2].
>>>>
>>>> Hope this helps,
>>>>
>>>> Adrià
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [1]
>>> http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/writing-extensions.html?highlight=interfaces#ckan.plugins.interfaces.IResourcePreview
>>>> [2]
>>> https://github.com/okfn/ckanext-spatial/blob/master/ckanext/spatial/nongeos_plugin.py#L9
>>>>
>>>> On 11 June 2013 15:37, Henrik Aagaard Sørensen <BU1G at tmf.kk.dk> wrote:
>>>>> I guess everything is possible in CKAN J
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> However, are there any existing functionality or extension for showing
>>>>> GeoJSON data directly on a map in CKAN?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>>
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