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A hackbox for geo stuff
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# GeoBox - A hackbox for geo stuff



This is a vagrant box that includes some GIS related tools for hacking. You can use it to get

started with some standard tools without worrying about messing up your local machine.



# Included in VM



* Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin

* GEOS 3.3.3

* Proj 4.7

* SpatiaLite 3.1

* GDAL 1.9.1

* Mapnik 2.0.1

* PostgreSQL 9.1

* PostGIS 2.0.1

* Redis 2.2.x

* MongoDB 2.x

* NodeJS stable (currently 0.8.x)

* Ruby 1.9.3 + Bundler

* CartoDB (master)

* osm2pgsql

* osmosis

* Imposm 2.4

* nginx

* zsh



# Requirements for host machine



* Ruby

* VirtualBox [Download](https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads)

* Vagrant `gem install vagrant`



# Installation



    git clone https://github.com/zhm/geobox

    cd geobox

    git submodule init

    git submodule update

    vagrant box add precise http://files.vagrantup.com/precise64.box



# Usage & Setup



to build the VM from the base image and ssh into it:



    vagrant up

    vagrant ssh



exiting ssh from the VM:



    exit



or to stop it from the host:



    vagrant suspend



to destroy the VM from the host (to either delete it completely or rebuild it):



    vagrant destroy



then to rebuild everything:



    vagrant up



Note: Starting the machine for the first time will take about 20-30 minutes since it builds ruby, node, and PostGIS from source.



# Accessing CartoDB



To access the CartoDB server, you need to add something to your host file.



    echo "22.22.22.22 cartodb.localhost.lan" | tee -a /etc/hosts



Once you have cartodb.localhost.lan resolving, you go to `http://cartodb.localhost.lan:3000` in your browser to get to CartoDB.



CartoDB is started using WEBrick in the background, but you can kill it manually and start it via ssh manually if you want:



    cd /usr/local/src/cartodb

    sudo kill `pids/cartodb.pid`

    bundle exec rails server



# Connecting to PostgreSQL



To access the postgres instance from outside the VM (e.g. psql or pgAdmin), use 22.22.22.22 and username `vagrant` and password `vagrant`.

This can be convenient for loading data that's on your local machine or being able to use pgAdmin to get to the database.



# Hacking



If you want to add your own stuff, you will want to take a look at [default.rb](https://github.com/zhm/geobox/blob/master/cookbooks/core/recipes/default.rb). It has most of the hackish code that installs and sets up the box. Improvements are welcome since I have no idea what I'm doing.



# TODO

* Proper init.d scripts and helpers to start/stop CartoDB stuff, or at least some shell aliases?

* nginx setup for CartoDB stuff (preferably an optional setting that "just works" for both WEBrick and nginx)

* TileMill

* Options to use the latest and greatest of all stuff (Mapnik HEAD, PostGIS HEAD, etc)

* Separate some of the stuff from the `core` recipe into different recipes

* Fix all the custom `execute` commands to be more resilient to the `vagrant reload` command so they don't rebuild every time (mostly done, albeit hacky)

* Oh yeah, security, don't use this for production.

* EC2 compatible deployment using chef-solo, see previos item.