[GeoNode-users] Advice for whether I should use Geonode for my spatial data platform

[Adi Eyal]

Very helpful, thank you. Looking into it now.

On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 1:25 PM Francesco Bartoli <xbartolone at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Adi,
>
> Some of the features that you are looking for are shipped with GeoNode.
> Others like that specific hierarchy needs a customization on top of the
> code base.
> For this reason I would suggest to use a GeoNode project
> https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode-project approach which is basically a
> standard django project that inherits the code base as a library.
> In other words, you could continue your current project while adapting it
> to GeoNode and exploiting its core functionalities like points .4 and .5.
>
> Hope this helps
> Best,
> Francesco
> Il 27 set 2020, 12:44 +0200, Adi Eyal <adi at openup.org.za>, ha scritto:
>
> Apologies in advance if this is the wrong list for my question.
>
> My organisation is developing a Django-based platform for linking tabular
> data to spatial data and publishing it online. You can find an initial beta
> running here: https://beta.youthexplorer.org.za/, code can be found here
> <https://github.com/openupsa/wazimap-ng> and here
> <https://github.com/openupsa/wazimap-ng-ui>.
>
> Before going too far down the road, I was wondering whether some, or all
> of the project could be built on top of GeoNode. A cursory investigation
> suggests that our use-case is different enough to warrant its own data
> structures and workflow, but I was hoping that someone more familiar with
> GeoNode and all of its components might provide better insight.
>
> My main requirements are:
>
> 1. A set of spatial hierarchies can be loaded - e.g. country, province,
> district, etc.
> 2. Arbitrary tabular datasets can be uploaded which links with these
> hierarchies through some sort of natural key - e.g. ISO3166 code for
> countries.
> 3. Data can be shaped by an administrator through grouping and filtering -
> e.g. our typical datasets might have the following structure:
> Geography,Gender,Age,Count
> AUS,Female,20, 500
> AUS,Male,20, 450
> AUS,Female,21,467
> AUS,Male,21,567
> DRC,Female,20, 786,
> ...
> ZWE,Male,21,785
>
> Using this raw data. an administrator could create an indicator to show
> the distribution of Genders by grouping by gender and geography and summing
> the counts.
> 4. Serving the spatial boundaries + data via API
> 5. A frontend mapping interface that allows the user to navigate the
> geography hierarchy and display the tabular data.
>
> These are all features that have already been implemented. We would
> however like to create a richer platform though that is able to serve this
> data through a WFS platform, more robust data management etc.
>
> It seems logical to consider GeoNode for handling some of the backend
> features given the strong community and robustness of the codebase.
>
> Any thoughts or advice would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards
> Adi
>
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