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The GNA Project

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The GNA (Geographic Network Analysis) Project.

Technology

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The GNA Project takes advantage of various open-source projects, primarily:

• PostgreSQL
• PostGIS
• Django & GeoDjango
• Python
• Geospatial libraries
  • GEOS
  • GDAL
  • geopy
• Python libraries
  • django-rest-framework
  • django-rest-framework-gis
  • django-mptt
  • django-nvd3
  • Pillow
  • python-nvd3
  • psycopg2
• Leaflet
• Leaflet.draw
• jQuery

Acknowledgments

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The project has benefited from the open-source community and the works of others. It has either implemented, based parts of its code on, or simply taken inspiration from the following projects:

• Several open-source projects by Makina Corpus
• The GeoNode project
• The RENCI (Renaissance Computing Institute) Geoanalytics Platform

Changes

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• v0.0.2, 18/08/2014 -- Initial alpha release.
  • Implemented release cycle numbering.
  • Released .core module
    • Added API and utilities in .core
    • Added Django Rest Framework for building API
    • Added DRF-GIS for geojson support in API
    • Confirmed API support for future release of ol3.js
  • Released .units module
    • Added geocoding and reverse geocoding through geopy
    • Started implementing exceptions
    • Added geos.centroid for calculating locations
  • Initial release of .taxonomy module
    • Added initial fixtures
  • Initial release of .metadata module
    • Added Primary Data and Conditions.choices
  • Project-wide:
    • Added AJAX in mapping views
    • Added Django Bower for managing /components/bower_components
    • Added Crispy Forms for managing Bootstrap 3
    • Added Leaflet.js and Leaflet.draw for mapping
  • Miscellaneous
    • Initial release of vagrant settings
    • Cleaned up directory structure and some code
    • Cleaned up python requirements