Easy Installation

by Matthew, on 02 October 2012

Welcome to our new site providing documentation about installing and running your own copy of MapIt, in the same vein as our documentation for the FixMyStreet Platform. We want to make it as easy as we can for people to reuse our code, and over the past few weeks we’ve been working on some things that will hopefully help.

Installing

Firstly, we have created an AMI (Amazon Machine Image) containing an already set-up basic installation of MapIt. You can use this to create a running server on an Amazon EC2 instance. If you haven’t used Amazon Web Services before, then you can get a Micro instance free for a year.

If you have your own server, then we have separately released the install script that is used to create the AMI, which can be run on any clean Debian or Ubuntu server to set everything up for you, from PostGIS to nginx.

If you prefer to do things manually, and already know how to set up your database, web server, and GeoDjango, this site also contains our manual documentation.

Importing

Secondly, we have generalised and improved upon some import scripts, that can be used to easily import boundaries stored in Shapefiles or KML files, and CSVs of postal code data, into MapIt. We’ve provided a worked example of boundary importing using some data from GADM.