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04 October 2024 /

Where are you? - Part 2 - Geocoding with Django to empower area search

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.

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28 September 2024 /

Where are you? - Part 1 - Geocoding with Nominatim to empower area search

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. When another user visits the site, that wants to adopt a pet in their area, they input their location and it will search for all animals in a specific radius.

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10 November 2023 /

Tracking blog readers with OxiTraffic

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. Naturally I wrote an ansible role for this, which can be found under mother-of-all-self-hosting/ansible-role-oxitraffic. I now have this neat graph.

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24 July 2023 /

Deploying a django app with docker, ansible and traefik

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. The docker file is probably terribly inefficient as it is to large and should be build in stages. Consider this a working example, not a best practice. Also feel free to give me pointers on how to improve it. Specifics I want to point out are:

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