Facilities Web App

An internal web mapping application built on leaflet (not NPMap.js) and featuring Alaskan NPS facilities managed by the facilities managers (in FMSS) and spatial data and photos data managed by the regional GIS team of the National Park Service.

Build

There is no build step required for this app to work. However it does require five data files (not included in the repo) in order to be useful. The code in this app is sensitive to the schema (structure) of the data files and changes to one or the other will need to be coordinated and tested. The five data files are how to build them follows:

/fmss/photos.json

Built with the make_photos_json.py script from the Facility-Processing repo. See the photo processing workflow for details.

data/facilities.csv

Run all the code in facilities.sql from the Facility-Processing repo and export the first select query as facilities.csv.

data/assets.csv

Export the second select query from facilities.sql (above) as assets.csv.

data/children.json

Export the third select query from facilities.sql (above) as parents.csv and the fourth select query as all_assets.csv. Then run make_children.py which will create children.json and assets.json. Delete parents.csv and all_assets.csv

data/assets.json

This file is created when make_children.py is run to create children.json above.

Deploy

Copy this repo and the data files built above to any published folder on a web server. The following files are not required on the web server and do not need to be copied (although they wont hurt the app if left on the web server).

• .git
• .gitignore
• README.md
• Presentation notes.md
• to_do.md

The file photos.json (built above) needs to be deployed to a published web folder called fmss the folder must contain the facility photos at paths that match the URLs in the photos.json file. See Photo Update Process for details on populating the fmss web folder.

Once the web app is deployed, the data files can be updated as often as needed without redeploying the app (provided there are no structural changes to the data files).

The data files should be rebuilt (see above) and redeployed whenever there are changes to the DEFAULT version of the facilities SDE database, or whenever the FMSS Export process is completed.

Using

Point your browser to the published web server folder. The app is a fairly intuitive web mapping application. feel free to click at random to see what it can do. Until there is a help document, see these presentation notes for some pointers.