Team mcr's project for the "arm Intern Innovation Challenge"
This project is a web application that visualizes schools and health facilities in Colombia. The user is able to input values for 'min' and 'max' range to show all schools that are within that range of a health facility. Clicking any marker on the map shows that point's name.
In the top right corner of the web application the user can find a language selection. To enable further collaboration between those working to help Colombia and those living in Colombia the current languages of choice are 'English' and 'Spanish'.
In the interest of making the process of using our app as simple as possible, we are hosting a live demo at http://209.97.181.54/. You can visit this webpage if you'd like to see our work without the hassle of installing it.
To run the server, you have two choices:
- Run the app locally using Python.
- Run the app in a Docker container.
To do this, you will need to set up a Python virtualenv. There are a number of tools available to do this. I prefer
pipenv, but plain old virtualenv will work just fine too.
Install whichever virtualenv tool you prefer, set up a virtualenv in the repo directory, and activate it. Navigate to the root of the repo then run:
./install.sh
This will use pip to install all Python dependencies, npm to install all JavaScript dependencies, wget to download data packages, and unzip to extract them. NOTE: Please ensure pip, wget, and unzip are installed before running this script.
Next, we have to tell Flask where the app is by setting the FLASK_APP environment variable. To do this:
export FLASK_APP=$(pwd)/mcr.py
from the root of the repository.
Now, to launch the app, use flask run. By default, Flask binds to 127.0.0.1:5000 -- if you visit that in your browser,
you should see the web page.
To do this, make sure you have Docker installed and run the following command from the root directory of the repository:
docker build -t flask:latest . && docker run -it -p <port_on_your_host>:8080 flask:latest
where <port_on_your_host> can be absolutely anything. We recommend 5000 to avoid permissions errors.
This uses the repo's Dockerfile to build a new docker container and runs it, mapping port 8080 on the container to a port of your choosing on the host. Again, if you visit 127.0.0.1:port_on_your_host in your browser, you should see the page!
To run tests, make sure you are in the root directory of the project and run the following command:
python -m unittest discover -v