Mappy

Mappy is a Django application to store and show object location on GoogleMaps .

Requirement

1. Django (tested on version 3.1)
2. Python (tested on version 3.8)
3. Google maps API key with Maps JavaScript API enabled get and API key instruction
4. Generates a random token to protect list of coords which is used for real-time map inside Django

Installation

1. clone this project

git clone https://github.com/raffaellasuardini/tesi.git

2. create a virtual env

python -m venv env
source env/bin/activate

3. install Django Rest Framework

pip install djangorestframework

4. install Django-Environment

pip install django-environ

5. create a .env file like this:

DEBUG=ON
SECRET_KEY=your_secret_key
GOOGLE_MAP_KEY=your_api_key
TOKEN=random_token_for_GET

Usage

To activate server

python manage.py runserver

To apply migration

python manage.py migrate

To collect static

python manage.py collectstatic

To create superuser

python manage.py createsuperuser

API Usage

You can only use POST to insert new coords with a request to the endpoint:

http://YOUR_DOMAIN/api/coord/

If you need a list of coords with GET method use this endpoint with your token:

http://YOUR_DOMAIN/api/coord/list/?token=YOUR_TOKEN

JSON Request format:

{
  object_label: 'label for the point',
  lat: 'latitude',
  lng: 'longitude'
}

If object_label exist API updates coords, else a new one is created.