aadchrom / straymapper

A web tool to help reunite more stray animals with their human companions

Stray Pet Mapper

Reunite more stray animals with their human companions

Screenshot

Demo

You can see a running version of the application at http://straymapper.com/.

Development Environment

Ubuntu Environment

Instructions for creating a development environment for Ubuntu Linux. This has been tested using Ubuntu 12.04.

#Initial libraries needed
$sudo apt-get install build-essential git-core python-software-properties python-dev python-pip python-virtualenv

#SQLite Dependencies
$sudo apt-get install sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev

#Spatialite Dependencies
$sudo apt-get install libproj-dev proj-bin libgeos-dev libgdal-dev libspatialite3 libspatialite-dev spatialite-bin

Mac Environment

Instructions for creating a development environment on Mac. This requires that Homebrew is installed.

$ brew install sqlite3
$ brew isntall geos
$ brew install proj
$ brew install gdal
$ brew install libspatialite

Note: Without Homebrew

Install the correct libspatialite library from Spatialite for your Mac.

Installation

git clone git://github.com/codeforamerica/straymapper.git
cd straymapper
pip install -r requirements.txt
touch straymapperdb
spatialite straymapperdb "SELECT InitSpatialMetaData();"
./manage.py syncdb

Usage

./manage.py runserver

Seed Data

./manage.py runscript animals.scripts.populate

Contributing

In the spirit of free software, everyone is encouraged to help improve this project.

Here are some ways you can contribute:

• by using alpha, beta, and prerelease versions
• by reporting bugs
• by suggesting new features
• by translating to a new language
• by writing or editing documentation
• by writing specifications
• by writing code (no patch is too small: fix typos, add comments, clean up inconsistent whitespace)
• by refactoring code
• by closing issues
• by reviewing patches
• financially

Submitting an Issue

We use the GitHub issue tracker to track bugs and features. Before submitting a bug report or feature request, check to make sure it hasn't already been submitted. You can indicate support for an existing issue by voting it up. When submitting a bug report, please include a Gist that includes a stack trace and any details that may be necessary to reproduce the bug, including your gem version, Ruby version, and operating system. Ideally, a bug report should include a pull request with failing specs.

Submitting a Pull Request

1. Fork the project.
2. Create a topic branch.
3. Implement your feature or bug fix.
4. Add tests for your feature or bug fix.
5. Run ./manage.py test. If your changes are not 100% covered, go back to step 4.
6. Commit and push your changes.
7. Submit a pull request. Please do not include changes to the gemspec or version file. (If you want to create your own version for some reason, please do so in a separate commit.)

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2012 Code for America. See LICENSE for details.