MetaCarta Labs Rectifier

The MetaCarta Labs Rectifier is a Django-based server and OpenLayers-based client which allows you to upload maps, and transform them to match the real world.

To setup:

• Install Django
• Install PIL
• Install GDAL and MapServer, with Python bindings
  • Make sure gdalinfo, gdal_translate, etc. are on the default path.

Then:

• Edit paths at the top of settings.py
• Edit the paths at the top of warpviavrt.sh to match
• python manage.py syncdb
• python manage.py runserver

Notes in 2019

This application was tested (in 2019) to run on Django 1.1. (Yes, that's 1.1, not 1.10.) I know this is ancient. There are no immediate plans to update this support. The approximate setup steps above should still work, though some steps were left out -- e.g. you also need to install simplejson.

For 2019, approximate steps for installation on an Ubuntu 18.04 LTS installation:

apt install sqlite3 cgi-mapserver python-mapscript python-gdal
python-pil virtualenv gdal-bin git clone https://github.com/crschmidt/labs-rectifier rectifier cd rectifier virtualenv env --system-site-packages

needed because you need the Ubuntu python-gdal installation, not

one you install via PIL, due to version mismatches.

source env/bin/activate pip install Django==1.1.4 mkdir db/ python manage.py syncdb python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0 8000

I should note that in reviewing this software, the call out to scripts/warpviavrt.sh seems dangerous to 2019-me. It's possible that this is safe, but I would recommend convincing yourself that there's no shell escape possibilities here before running on a server that you think might matter.

Credits

The MetaCarta Labs Rectifier is available under a Clear BSD license, from MetaCarta Labs. Copyright 2006-2009.