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Contributing to Cartagen

Cartagen needs contributions from all sorts of people! Below are some suggestions, but if you want to lend a hand and aren’t sure how to go about it, email [email protected] and we’ll find something for you to do.

Code

Do you know JavaScript? Ruby on Rails? Help write Cartagen!

Check out the source from Github and take a look at Navigating The Source. Send an email to [email protected] with what’ you’re interested in working on, suggestions that you have, or code patches.

To generate a code patch, look at this good outline for git patch submission: https://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994/sending-patches

Make sure to look at the source documentation, which is build from comments in the source code. Once you check out the source, make sure you have Ruby and Rake installed, and run rake docs from public/cartagen.

Also look at the preliminary System Diagram to learn more about how Cartagen is structured.

Document

Documentation is an important aspect of Cartagen. The easiest way to contribute is to work on this wiki - crate articles on aspects of Cartagen not covered, improve existing articles, or fix typos and errors. You can also work on the in-code documentation - see the above instruction for checking out the source and building the documentation.

Extend

The server edition of Cartagen as an API to read and write nodes and ways. This allows developers to build tools that integrate with Cartagen, but are not part of Cartagen itself. The API is also used within Cartagen itself to add nodes – look at public/cartagen/src/interface/user.js for an example, and look at the Cartagen API for the complete reference.

Developer Topics

Roadmap

See Cartagen Roadmap.

Using the http://cartagen.org Planet server from your server or local box

If you want access to the full planet data set when static_map = false, you can redirect requests to your Cartagen Server instance’s /api/0.6/ directory. To learn more about this, read Redirecting To Cartagen Planet Server.

Running the Planet server

Cartagen.org runs on an OpenStreetMap planet dataset which is kept up to date with the import tool Osmosis. Read more about setup and maintenance in Planet Server

Coastline Rendering

Coastline Rendering covers some of the techniques Cartagen uses to do live client-side coastline rendering.