georegistry - The Geospatial Health RESTful Webservice

Written By: Alan Viars, et. al.

Copyright 2011 Columbia Univeristy / The Earth Institute

MongoDB Setup:

Install MongoDB

wget http://fastdl.mongodb.org/linux/mongodb-linux-x86_64-1.8.2.tgz
tar zxvf mongodb-linux-x86_64-1.6.5.tgz
cd mongodb-linux-x86_64-1.6.5/bin

Start the database:

./mongod --dbpath=/home/alan/.data/

I like to add a line in my .basrc to easily start MongoDB

alias mgdb='/home/alan/.bin/mongodb-linux-x86_64-1.8.2/bin/mongod --dbpath=/home/alan/.data/'

Enter the Mongo shell

>mongo
db = connect("localhost/georegistry02");
use <collection_name>;
db.<collection_name>.find();
db.<collection_name>.find().forEach(printjson);

Create Indexes

db.<collection_name>.ensureIndex( { 'geometry_centroid' : "2d" } )
db.<collection_name>.ensureIndex( { 'country_code' : 1 } )
db.<collection_name>.ensureIndex( { 'id' : 1 } )

Display everythin in the collection

db.<collection_name>.find().forEach(printjson);

Setup georegistry:

These instruction may need to be modified based on your flavor/version of Linux/Unix.

For example, you could install python-imaging with pip, by typing:

sudo pip install PIL

Noy you need to install

Setup on Ubuntu 10.10

sudo apt-get install lib-geos-c1 python-imaging git-core mercurlial build-essental python2.6-dev python-setuptools libdecodeqr0 libdecodeqr-dev libqrencode3 libqrencode-dev
sudo easy_install pip
git clone git://github.com/mvpdev/georegistry.git
cd georegistry
sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
python manage.py syncdb
python managae.py runserver

Now that you have the server running, move on to the tutorial