The City of Chicago is selling lots in Englewood for $1 until April 21, 2014. Here's how you get one.
Clone the repo and install the requirements:
git clone [email protected]:datamade/large-lots.git
cd large-lots
pip install -r requirements.txtSetup a few Environmental variables:
DJANGO_SECRET_KEY Django’s Secret
Key
used by the project. Can be any relatively hard to guess string.
AWS_ACCESS_KEY AWS key used by the file storage mechanism to store files in
S3.
AWS_SECRET_KEY The secret that goes with the key above.
LOTS_EMAIL_HOST, LOTS_EMAIL_PORT, LOTS_EMAIL_USE_TLS, LOTS_EMAIL_HOST_USER, LOTS_EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD These are used to configure the email settings for
Django. See Django docs for more info.
SENTRY_DSN This is a connection string for Sentry
Run the app:
python manage.py runservernavigate to http://localhost:8000/
Our map was built using open data from Chicago and Cook County:
We used the following open source tools:
- QGIS - graphic information system (GIS) desktop application
- PostGIS - geospatial database
- Bootstrap - Responsive HTML, CSS and Javascript framework
- Leaflet - javascript library interactive maps
- jQuery Address - javascript library creating RESTful URLs
- Demond Drummer - idea, content, outreach
- Derek Eder - developer, content
- Eric van Zanten - developer, GIS data merging
- Forest Gregg - process design, content
- Aya O'Connor - logo
- Juan-Pablo Velez - content
If something is not behaving intuitively, it is a bug, and should be reported. Report it here: https://github.com/datamade/englewood-large-lots/issues
- Fork the project.
- Make your feature addition or bug fix.
- Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history.
- Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.
Copyright (c) 2014 DataMade and LISC Chicago. Released under the MIT License.