Zverik/nik4wsgi

A wsgi port of nik4cgi

CGI interface to Nik4

This is exactly what you think it is: a web interface to Nik4. Instead of typing bounds by hand, just select a rectangle on an interactive map, choose paper format, image type, and press "Submit. You'll get a fresh map image in 300 dpi, not dependent on stale tiles and overloaded osm.org.

There is a demo instance at http://tile.osmz.ru/get/index.en.html

Installation

Copy all files from www directory into some apache's document root subdirectory. Then copy files from cgi-bin into directory for CGI scripts. Fix the path to nik4cgi.py in index*.html. Note that index.html is in Russian: you may want to rename index.en.html or create a version in your language.

You would need Nik4 and probably OSM Carto style: for the latter you would need to run get-shapefiles.sh and then generate XML: run npm install carto; carto -l project.mml > osm.xml.

I assume you already have PostGIS and Mapnik installed, and OSM data loaded in a database. An apache user might not have access to the database. There are two ways to fix this. First is to start psql gis (assuming database is "gis") as postgres user and run:

CREATE USER apache;
GRANT CONNECT ON DATABASE gis TO apache;
GRANT USAGE ON SCHEMA public TO apache;
GRANT SELECT ON ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA public TO apache;

Or simplier, especially if your apache user is "www-data", just allow user that has reading rights access without password, adding local gis username trust to pg_hba.conf and adding user name to XML style:

sed -i 's/\(<Parameter name="dbname\)/<Parameter name="user">username<\/Parameter>\1/' style.xml

Then correct layers and paths in cgi-bin/cfg.py. You may have to correct layers array in www/getveloroad.js. Finally, adjust bounds.geojson in www directory to your data bounds, or remove the relevant line from www/getveloroad.js. Now, open the page and try generating an image.

Route layer

This is how a GPX trace layer is added to Veloroad style:

<Style name="route" filter-mode="first">
  <Rule>
    <MinScaleDenominator>750000</MinScaleDenominator>
    <LineSymbolizer stroke-width="4" stroke="#012d64" stroke-linejoin="round" stroke-linecap="round" />
  </Rule>
  <Rule>
    <MaxScaleDenominator>750000</MaxScaleDenominator>
    <LineSymbolizer stroke-width="5" stroke="#012d64" stroke-linejoin="round" stroke-linecap="round" />
  </Rule>
</Style>
<Layer name="route" status="off" srs="+proj=longlat +ellps=WGS84 +datum=WGS84 +no_defs">
  <StyleName>route</StyleName>
  <Datasource>
     <Parameter name="type">ogr</Parameter>
     <Parameter name="file">${route:/home/username/whatever/route.gpx}</Parameter>
     <Parameter name="layer">tracks</Parameter>
     <Parameter name="all_layers">route_points,routes,track_points,waypoints</Parameter>
  </Datasource>
</Layer>

Just paste this code into your XML; this works even for OSM Carto style (I put it before "nepopulated" layer). Note that the path to route.gpx should be correct, though it won't be used for rendering.

Author and License

Most files here were written by Ilya Zverev and published under WTFPL license.

Web page contains code from Leaflet.draw and Leaflet.FileLayer plugins and togeojson by MapBox.