Community Portal
Programming portal
All of the source code for the websites in the Metabolism of Cities network are open sourced. Our repository can be found on Github. We use the following technologies:
- Django 3
- Python 3
- PostgreSQL
- PostGIS
- Docker
In order to meaningfully contribute to this project (or clone it and use it for your own purposes), you should ideally be comfortable with (or willing to learn about) the aforementioned technologies. You can make a meaningful contribution if you know either about python/Django, or about HTML/CSS/Javascript (allowing you to contribute with back-end or front-end programming, respectively).
The tech work on Metabolism of Cities has so far be done by a small number of people. However, we are very keen to get others involved. Due to the nature of the work, it would be ideal if you have a background both in urban metabolism/industrial ecology, and in web development. If you are not very familiar with our topic matter, but you are a keen programmer and willing to learn and spend time on this project, then we are happy to assist you in that journey.
To get the repository set up locally, please refer to our readme on Github. Furthermore, we have a set of introduction videos that walk you through our codebase. Have a look to get an idea of how things work. If you are ready to contribute, have a look at the task list below and pick a task of your liking. There is MUCH more to do than what is documented here, so you can also use the chatbox below to bring up additional ideas or questions.
Task list
Task | Details | Points | Last update |
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Integrate air quality data
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Open Medium priority |
5 | |
Improve reference space detail page
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Completed Medium priority |
5 |
1 year, 1 month ago
by Paul Hoekman |
Improve managing your own data
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Open Medium priority |
5 |
1 year, 1 month ago
by Paul Hoekman |
Improve data portal navigation
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Completed Medium priority |
5 |
1 year, 1 month ago
by Paul Hoekman |
Process large datafiles asynchronous
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub 1 vote |
Programming work Completed Medium priority |
5 |
1 year, 1 month ago
by Paul Hoekman |
Properly embed adjacency lists
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Open Medium priority |
5 |
1 year, 1 month ago
by Paul Hoekman |
Properly embed geocode scheme foundation
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Open Medium priority |
5 |
1 year, 1 month ago
by Paul Hoekman |
Restructure Data Layer Tags
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Open Medium priority |
5 |
1 year, 1 month ago
by Paul Hoekman |
Allow for better data exploration from the dataset page
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Completed Medium priority |
5 |
1 year, 1 month ago
by Paul Hoekman |
Develop system to integrate raw data converter scripts
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Open Medium priority |
5 |
1 year, 1 month ago
by Paul Hoekman |
Develop grouping/stacking options for multidimensional datasets
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Open Medium priority |
5 |
1 year, 1 month ago
by Paul Hoekman |
Create master map for an individual city
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Open Medium priority |
5 |
1 year, 1 month ago
by Paul Hoekman |
Allow for processed data to be re-processed quickly next time
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Open Medium priority |
5 |
1 year, 1 month ago
by Paul Hoekman |
Allow use of different material catalogs
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Open Medium priority |
5 |
1 year, 1 month ago
by Paul Hoekman |
Allow user to search for data in the entire database
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Open Medium priority |
5 |
1 year, 1 month ago
by Paul Hoekman |
Better deal with large shapefiles
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Open Medium priority |
5 |
1 year, 1 month ago
by Paul Hoekman |
Speed up chart generation
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Completed Medium priority |
5 |
1 year, 12 months ago
by Paul Hoekman |
Allow for multiple visualizations to be set up for a single dataset
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Completed Medium priority |
5 |
2 years, 1 month ago
by Paul Hoekman |
Implement queries so all data from a dataset is converted into a single unit
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Open Medium priority |
5 |
2 years, 2 months ago
by joe |
Limit display of contents to city boundaries
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Completed Medium priority |
5 |
2 years, 2 months ago
by Paul Hoekman |
Aggregate data by time period for data visualisation
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Open Medium priority |
5 |
2 years, 2 months ago
by joe |
Apply geospatial restrictions to data visualization
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Completed Medium priority |
5 |
2 years, 2 months ago
by Paul Hoekman |
Customize data visualizations: hide top menu/table
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Completed Medium priority |
5 |
2 years, 2 months ago
by Paul Hoekman |
Show data viz inside a reference space
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Completed Medium priority |
5 |
2 years, 2 months ago
by Carolin Bellstedt |
Improve data table in reference spaces
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Open Medium priority |
5 |
2 years, 2 months ago
by Carolin Bellstedt |
Allow for custom data visualizations to only show data from a specific reference space
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Completed Medium priority |
5 |
2 years, 2 months ago
by Paul Hoekman |
Show data visualization on reference space page
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Discarded Medium priority |
5 |
2 years, 2 months ago
by Paul Hoekman |
Easily load a boundary shapefile when displaying a map
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Completed Medium priority |
5 |
2 years, 2 months ago
by Paul Hoekman |
Embed process data in our datasets
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Open Medium priority |
5 |
2 years, 2 months ago
by Paul Hoekman |
Develop data visualizations at a higher level of aggregation
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Open Medium priority |
5 |
2 years, 2 months ago
by Paul Hoekman |
Allow for updates to existing datasets
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Open Medium priority |
5 |
2 years, 2 months ago
by Paul Hoekman |
Create user interface to show nested reference spaces
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Open Low priority |
5 |
2 years, 2 months ago
by joe |
Allow for customization of "map pages"
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Completed Medium priority |
5 |
2 years, 3 months ago
by Paul Hoekman |
Include data for various reference spaces simultaneously
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Open Medium priority |
5 |
2 years, 3 months ago
by Carolin Bellstedt |
Add units to the visualisations
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Completed Medium priority |
5 |
3 years ago
by Paul Hoekman |
Develop standard unit conversion for datasets
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Open Medium priority |
5 |
3 years, 1 month ago
by Paul Hoekman |
Consider change geometry fields to geography fields
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Open Medium priority |
5 |
3 years, 1 month ago
by Paul Hoekman |
Create a single map with all cities
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Completed Medium priority |
5 |
3 years, 5 months ago
by Taina Wanderley |
Allow for easy GPS configuration
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Completed Medium priority |
5 |
3 years, 5 months ago
by Paul Hoekman |
Add overview of spreadsheet format
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Open Medium priority |
5 |
3 years, 5 months ago
by Paul Hoekman |
Enable legend for the graphics by default
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Open High priority |
5 |
3 years, 5 months ago
by Carolin Bellstedt |
Change file name for images that are downloaded from a visualisation
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Open Low priority |
5 |
3 years, 5 months ago
by Carolin Bellstedt |
Remove Dataset as separate model
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Completed Medium priority |
5 |
3 years, 5 months ago
by Carolin Bellstedt |
Set up a proper "mini-site" for the priority project
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Completed Medium priority |
5 |
3 years, 5 months ago
by Paul Hoekman |
Create "direct messaging" functionality
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Open Medium priority |
5 |
3 years, 5 months ago
by Paul Hoekman |
Add priority plan to MOI
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Completed Medium priority |
5 |
3 years, 6 months ago
by Paul Hoekman |
Clean up task overview and workflow issues
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub 1 vote |
Programming work Open Medium priority |
5 |
3 years, 6 months ago
by Paul Hoekman |
Resolve database error when doing within lookup for specific cities
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Open Medium priority |
5 |
3 years, 6 months ago
by Paul Hoekman |
Add countries to cities/islands
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Completed Medium priority |
5 |
3 years, 6 months ago
by Paul Hoekman |
Fix shapefile processing holdup
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Completed Medium priority |
5 |
3 years, 6 months ago
by Paul Hoekman |
Set up economic data processing
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Open Medium priority |
5 |
3 years, 6 months ago
by Paul Hoekman |
Allow changing file type for GPS files/shapefiles
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Completed Medium priority |
5 |
3 years, 6 months ago
by Carolin Bellstedt |
Enable the editing of shapefile metadata
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Open Medium priority |
5 |
3 years, 7 months ago
by Carolin Bellstedt |
Figure out how to integrate HDI
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Open Medium priority |
5 |
3 years, 7 months ago
by Paul Hoekman |
Set up front-end selection tool/option for nesting
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Open Medium priority |
5 |
3 years, 7 months ago
by Carolin Bellstedt |
Set up front-end pages design of manual/guide
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Open Medium priority |
5 |
3 years, 7 months ago
by Carolin Bellstedt |
Add “data quality” indication for collected and processed data
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Open Medium priority |
5 |
3 years, 7 months ago
by Carolin Bellstedt |
Add front-end option to edit the description of a reference space
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Completed Medium priority |
5 |
3 years, 8 months ago
by Paul Hoekman |
Add new mapping visualization options
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Completed Medium priority |
5 |
3 years, 8 months ago
by Paul Hoekman |
Allow for processing of geospatial spreadsheets
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Completed Medium priority |
5 |
3 years, 8 months ago
by Paul Hoekman |
Allow for shapefile data to be merged into a single reference space
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Completed Medium priority |
5 |
3 years, 8 months ago
by Paul Hoekman |
Fix Vimeo video embed code
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Open Medium priority |
5 |
3 years, 10 months ago
by Carolin Bellstedt |
Auto-save data viz image
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Open Medium priority |
5 |
3 years, 11 months ago
by Paul Hoekman |
Fix overflow issues with large map legends
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Completed Medium priority |
5 |
3 years, 11 months ago
by Paul Hoekman |
Integrate image in reference space database field
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Completed Medium priority |
5 |
4 years ago
by Paul Hoekman |
Migrate infrasatructure meta data
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Completed Medium priority |
5 |
4 years ago
by Paul Hoekman |
Allow for data processors to select the official city boundaries
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Completed Medium priority |
5 |
4 years ago
by Paul Hoekman |
Add section for data contributors within a city portal
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Completed Medium priority |
5 |
4 years, 2 months ago
by Carolin Bellstedt |
Allow line shapes
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Discarded Medium priority |
5 |
4 years, 5 months ago
by Kim Finlay |
Data contributor section on Data Hub main page
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Open Medium priority |
5 |
4 years, 5 months ago
by Kim Finlay |
Reintroduce the possibility to download the visualisations in .pdf .jpeg .svg .csv .xls, etc.
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Open Medium priority |
5 |
4 years, 5 months ago
by Kim Finlay |
Include monetary aspects in UM Data Hub
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Open Medium priority |
5 |
4 years, 5 months ago
by Kim Finlay |
Add info in downloadable CSV file
Metabolism of Cities Data Hub |
Programming work Open Medium priority |
5 |
4 years, 5 months ago
by Kim Finlay |