GeoforAll Members Map

This is program which generates a map of the existing GeoforAll members.

Python 2

Python 3

Requirements

• Python 3 https://www.python.org/downloads/
• virtualenv https://pypi.org/project/virtualenv/ pip3 install virtualenv

How to run

1. Install above programs and navigate to app/
2. Execute source bin/activate in shell to activate.
3. (Optional) Run python3 generate.py and follow instructions to generate a new dataset from the website.
4. Execute python3 -m http.server 8000.
5. Open a web browser and goto http://localhost:8000
6. Execute deactivate in shell to exit the virtualenv.

How this was developed

First, I looked up about Leaflet since that was my choice for creating the map. After I found that geojson was used for it I looked up how to create geojson from python. That's where I found the geojson library for Python. Then I used urllib3 and beautifulsoup4 to scrape the data from the web page (Some coordinates are faulty I think). Then that dataset was used to generate the map.