Topopartner

Topopartner is a Django application dedicated to topographic personal data management. Namely, it holds a database of waypoints and tracks. It offers a track edition interface, GPX exports, elevation profile plots, hike duration prediction, and more.

Check out ychalier/topopartner-android for an example of Android client.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

You'll need Python 3.6 or above.

Installation

1. Install the module from its custom package repository.

   pip install --extra-index-url="https://packages.chalier.fr" django-topopartner

2. Edit the website settings.py:

• Add mathfilters to the INSTALLED_APPS
• Add topopartner to the INSTALLED_APPS

3. Migrate the database:

   python manage.my migrate

4. Collect the new static files (override if necessary):

   python manage.my collectstatic

5. Integrate topopartner.urls in your project URLs

Built With

• Django
• Leaflet
• Leaflet.Editable
• gpxpy
• OpenTopoMap
• GPS Visualizer
• Material Design Icons
• Bytesize Icons

Future Work Pointers

Here are some other elevation sources that could be implemented in this application:

• SRTM.py
• Open-Elevation

Background Image

The contour lines drawn on the background were generated by randomly placing periodic Gaussians on a 2D plane using NumPy and Matplotlib (and a bit of Photoshop 😄).