XLS GeoConverter

This is a Django web interface for converting data collected with GeoODK Collect/ODK Collect to a geographical format. In the XLSForm there are three main geographical formats

To learn about XLSForms visit http://xlsform.org/

Spatial Data Type:

• geopoint (point)
• geoshape (polygon)
• geotrace (polyline)

This tool is for assisting with the “.csv” export formats of ODK Aggregate, Formhub and Ona.io. Once the data has been collected you can use this tool to convert your data into a ESRI shapefile.

Try it out:

http://converter.geoodk.com/

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Install

If you are using Vagrant for testing, pull the repo and run

vagrant up

In the Vagrant file you will notice that it runs the install.sh

config.vm.provision :shell, path: "install.sh"

Run Django setup

python manage.py syncdb --noinput

python manage.py migrate

python manage.py runserver

If you are installing directly on your a server check out the install.sh. The install.sh script includes:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y python-software-properties
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ubuntugis/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y python-dev

sudo apt-get install -y libgdal1-dev
sudo apt-get install -y libgdal-dev
sudo apt-get install -y g++
sudo apt-get install -y python-gdal
sudo apt-get install -y python-pip
sudo apt-get update

sudo pip install shapely
sudo pip install six
sudo pip install cligj
sudo pip install argparse
sudo pip install ordereddict
sudo pip install fiona
sudo pip install Django==1.8

Windows users might find the file requirements_win64.pip helpful. Follow the commented instructions inside it and use this to install packages:

pip install -r requirements_win64.pip

Notes

The Django app use shapely and Fiona, to learn more about these see:

Shapely:
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Shapely

Fiona:
https://github.com/Toblerity/Fiona

View them used together http://www.macwright.org/2012/10/31/gis-with-python-shapely-fiona.html