okfn / datadigitizer

Crowd source data digitizing.

Install

Instructions for a developer install (you may want to the following in a virtualenv):

# install pip (or easy_install)
# install requirements
pip install -r requirements
pip install -e .

Now you can run the app:

python datadigitizer/app.py

Visit: http://localhost:5000/

Technical

We use google docs as backend database. This makes it incredibly easy to add and edit tasks as you can just edit them in google spreadsheet.

For develepers documentation on the API and python code for this can be found here:

• Source file (with docs): http://code.google.com/p/gdata-python-client/source/browse/src/gdata/spreadsheet/text_db.py
• Using Google Spreadsheets as a Database in the Cloud: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWCLROPKug0