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GIS Tool in DrupalPNW Drupal Summit - Seattle
October 20th, 2012
Mack Hardy & Tom Nightingale@AffinityBridge
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History of Maps with Drupal Tools
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Location Module, proximity and filter
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Storage and Import
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Storage - GeoField
Where do we store data in drupal?
A common field format for geodata• WKT• Lat Lon• Bounding
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Spatial Import
How do we import data from external sources?
Shapefiles
KML files
Uses GeoPHP and ogr2ogr
Spatial module -> Saves as WKT -> Geofield
http://drupal.org/project/spatial
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ogr2ogr
Wrapper module for the GDAL ogr2ogr library
- Spatial module calls ogr2ogr
- Converts data from source formats to WKT
http://drupal.org/project/ogr2ogr
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Query
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Sync_PostGIS Module
• Allows drupal to query PostGIS as a spatial query service, much in the way SOLR is used for search
• Syncs data from Drupal entities with geofields to PostGIS
• Provides query methods for testing intersection, within, buffer conditions
http://drupal.org/project/sync_postgis
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Sync_PostGIS Module
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What does sync_postgis tell us?
Intersections with other data pointsWithin a buffer of 5km
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Testing for Intersectionfunction geoquery_intersects($item1, $item2) { $params = array($item1, $item2); foreach ($params as &$param) { if (is_scalar($param)) { $param = array('entity_type' => 'node', 'eid' => $param); } } if ($connection = sync_postgis_get_postgis_connection()) { $geo_query = new syncPgQuery($connection); return $geo_query->booleanRelQuery('intersects', $params[0], $params[1])->execute(); }
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Testing for Buffer Distancefunction geoquery_dwithin($item1, $item2, $distance = 0, $srid = 4326) { $params = array($item1, $item2); foreach ($params as &$param) { if (is_scalar($param)) { $param = array('entity_type' => 'node', 'eid' => $param); } } if ($connection = sync_postgis_get_postgis_connection()) { $geo_query = new syncPgQuery($connection, $srid); return $geo_query->booleanRelQuery('dwithin', $params[0], $params[1], $distance)->execute(); }}
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Displaying the results
With the results from the PostGIS backend, we can show the user useful information
In this case they know that
- target is in the protected area - target intersects 2 traplines
- target is within a 5 km buffer of 4 other nodes of interest
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Scaling
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Beyond Vector Based Maps
We want to show huge datasets, the vector model requires "painting" the data onto the map, which is computationally expensive
Pre-rendering the dataset onto a tile, means the client can load the data quickly, and tiles are easy to cache
Obvious downside of caching, is that it doesn't work well with frequently changing data
Tilemill has been great for creating base tiles, but regenerating the entire tileset when the data changes is hard and time consuming
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Comparing Vector vs MB Tiles
Vector - 2.30 MB of transfer - Client side render
Tiles - 529 kB of transfer - Server side render
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Tilestache
Python application for serving tiles
tilestache takes inputs of : --- mbtiles which are pre-generated --- mapnik configuration (to generate tiles on the fly)--- vector (geojson, arcjson) --- combinations of these inputs as composite
We are generating using mapnik with PostGIS as a datasource
- provides a caching layer for serving tiles
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Composite maps from PostGIS Data
• base map satellite images• tilestache provides the data
layers from PostGIS via mapnik• leaflet map definition points to
layers in the layer switcher
Image credit http://mike.teczno.com/notes/tilestache.html
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WAX interactivity
• parcel data with tiles in JSON• on mouseover and on click behaviours• need to pre-cache WAX styling
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WAX interactivity
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WAX interactivity
Demo
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WAX interactivity
How UTF8 grid workshttp://mapbox.com/demo/visiblemap/
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Random Tools
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Leaflet Draw
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Leaflet Paste
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Search API
Next we want to be able to return data items from SOLR to a map
Search on non-geographic facets - just like a view
Search on geographic facets - facet controls pull data from PostGIS, or use SOLRs spatial extensions
http://drupal.org/project/search_api_location