[GeoNode-users] Geonode and Django Content Management System

[Ariel Nunez]

Hey David,

I don't have any particular feedback but thanks for sharing! Looking
forward to being able to add a CMS as a contrib app easily in GeoNode.

-a

On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 2:53 AM, David Kennewell <
david.kennewell at hydrata.com> wrote:

> Hi there Geonode users,
>
> I wanted to share a few developments we've made with Geonode and
> DjangoCMS, and learn if there are others in the community headed in this
> direction.
>
> For those not familiar with django-cms <http://django-cms.org> it's a
> tool that allows users to edit and publish content directly to a website
> through their browser. No coding or web developer required. A typical
> usecase would be a reporting publishing an article to her newspaper
> website.
>
> I've been working with an NGO in Chennai,India to improve the
> accessibility of their work around flood management, and have found the CMS
> a really useful tool to merge reports and Geonode spatial data together in
> a way that readers can engage with. Here's an example:
> http://chennaifloodmanagement.org/en/projects/cag-flood-inundation-mapping/
>
> To achieve this outcome, there's basically two steps. I'd be interested in
> collaborating with anyone who would like to get involved in either of
> these.
>
> *1. Integrating Geonode with DjangoCMS*
> Current status:
> I've bolted these two together with sticky tape and paper glue to
> demonstrate what might be possible on the Chennai project :) Currently I'm
> running two separate servers & databases, with hardcoded links in each
> project to make it look like it's all talking to each other. Apart from the
> dev headache, major drawback here is that users need two django accounts,
> one for editing reports in CMS and another for geonode. Yuk.
>
> Desired status:
> Integrate DjangoCMS as an app under geonode. Now that geonode is running
> on Django 1.8 this is should be possible. If I do go down this path (we
> still need some decent traction here to justify it) I'd really appreciate
> some guidance on how to do this in a manner that allows both easy
> integration for other projects, but acknowledges that this isn't the core
> use-case for geonode, so should be an optional extra (in my opinion).
>
> *2. Authoring geonode maps within DjangoCMS content editor. *
> Once you're geonode/CMS webapp is up and running, your users still need to
> be able to publish geonode maps from the CMS editor. I've written a plugin
> to enable this. Once again, it's bare-bones, but it works and we find it
> useful. I've pushed the code to github here:
> https://github.com/Hydrata/geonode_cms_map
> I'd be happy to write an install doc for this, but that's probably not
> useful until I resolve the above integration issues. Until then it's a
> manual deploy - feel free to reach out if you would like guidance and we
> can work through together - I'm sure I'd learn something from this too.
>
> That's it from me for now, I'd love to hear any similar stories or
> use-cases that might help guide this development in a way that's useful for
> all.
>
> thanks
>
> David Kennewell
> Water Resources Engineer
> Hydrata.com
> +971 55 409 7378
> david.kennewell at hydrata.com
> https://ae.linkedin.com/in/davekennewell
>
>
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