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Introduction In the previous post I outlined how to set up a Nominatim server that allows us to find a geolocation for any address on the planet. Now let’s use our newfound power in Django. Again, all code snippets are CC0 so make free use of them. But I’d be very happy if you tell me if you use them for something cool!
Prerquisites You have a working geocoding server or use a public one You have a working django app If you want to do geocoding in a different environment you will still be able to use a lot of the the following examples, just skip the Django-specifics and configure the GEOCODING_API_URL according to your needs.
Introduction Geocoding is the process of translating a text input like Ungewitterweg, Berlin into a location with longitude and latitude such as 52.544022/13.147589. So whenever you search in OpenStreetMap or Google Maps for a location, it does exactly that (and sometimes more, but we don’t focus on that now).
For a pet project of mine (notfellchen.org) I wanted to do exactly that: When a animal is added there to be adopted, the user must input a location that is geocoded and saved with it’s coordinates.
Introduction RSS is amazing! While not everyone thinks that, most people that understand RSS, like it. This presents a problem, as most people don’t have chance to learn about it. Unless there is a person in the community that doesn’t shut up about how great RSS is (maybe that person is you), they might not even know what it is, let alone use it.
One big reason for this is, that when you click an link to an RSS feed you download a strange file that most people don’t know how to deal with.
I recently stumbled upon OxiTraffic, a self-hosted, simple and privacy respecting website traffic tracker which is well suited for blogs. What that means is
No personal data is logged one binary or simple docker container Readers are only counted if they spend >20s per site As I currently have no analytics on my blog and I am not inclined to use anything that adds more than 2 sentences to my privacy disclaimer I thought I give it a try.
This blog post will try to outline the process of deploying ILMO (a Django app) by building a docker image, using ansible to install&configure it on our server and use Traefik as webserver that is readily configured and obtains certificates for us.
I will go through the steps one by one and link more extensive documentation.
Building the docker image Building the docker image is pretty straightforward as it closely resembles the steps of manual deployment.