Prepare folder structure for creating assets

Time it takes: (5min)

Using the file explorer

1. Download the example configuration.

2. Unzip the contents to a new folder using a program like 7zip.

3. Rename the folder from "mapeo-default-settings-2.1.0" to "mapeo-config-projectname".

Using the terminal (linux and mac)

wget https://github.com/digidem/mapeo-default-settings/archive/v2.1.0.zip 
unzip v2.1.0.zip 
mv mapeo-default-settings-v2.1.0 mapeo-settings-myprojectname 

Configuration Contents

These are the directories that live in the top level folder

• fields

• icons

• presets

These are the files that live in the top level folder

• defaults.json

• metadata.json

• package.json

• style.css

Prepare .json Files

Time it takes: (20 min - 20 days. Estimate: 20 min per category)

In fields directory customize the .json files

In the fields directory, each .json file needs a key, type, label, and placeholder.

type can be one of select_multiple, select_one, text, or textarea

In the presets directory, customize the .json files

In the prests directory, each .json file needs:

• a list of fields which should match the key created in the fields directory.

• icon must mach the name of an icon in the icons folder

• namewill be the human-readable label shown to the user

• geometery must be a list of point ,area, and/or line

Copy icons from previous section

The icons folder should have all of the icons you created from the previous section

Adding an encryption key (optional)

In the metadata.json file, you can include a projectKey which is a random cryptographic string of characters to prevent unwanted devices from getting access to the data.

To create a projectKey, open node by typing this in the terminal

node

You will see

Welcome to Node.js 
Type ".help" for more information.
>

Copy the following and paste it in this prompt

crypto.randomBytes(32).toString('hex')

You'll see something like this (but with x replaced with real characters and numbers)

'380c02d32xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx1d'

Copy this string and add it to the metadata.json file so it looks like this:

{
  "dataset_id": "mapeo-jungle",
  "projectKey": "380c02d32xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx1d"
}

Notice that there are double quotes " around each value.

Prepare Computer for Packaging the Categories

Time it takes: (5-10 min)

This is a one time process for every computer. We will need to iinstall nvm, npm, and homebrew. If you've already done this, skip this section.

Install nvm

touch ~/.bash_profile
​
curl -o- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.32.1/install.sh> | bash

Then close terminal and open again

Install homebrew (macOS)

​http://brew.sh/​

Install npm

​https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/install​

Install and use node 8

nvm install 8
nvm alias default 8

Package Config Assets for MAPEO

Prep folder and build

Type, 'cd`, then a space, then drag and drop the folder where the prepared assets are and press enter. It will look something like this

cd /Users/jen/Documents/Dd_LOCAL_project-files/Dd-Tools/Mapeo/Presets/CREATION\\ LAB/Strathcona-KX-v1.0.0

You will then be ready to run scripts directly in the folder.

$ npm install

npm run -s build

This -s tells npm to be silent, so that you only see errors that are meaningful to you.

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If you succeeded, you'll see the following output and a new folder called build with a .mapeosettings file inside of it.

$ npm run -s build
→ Using version 2.14.0 of mapeo-settings-builder
! Warning: no category json files found in /home/okdistribute/node_modules/mapeo-default-settings/mapeo-default-settings-2.1.0/categories
✓ Built presets and categories (37ms)
✓ Generated svg sprite for iD (544ms)
✓ Generated png sprite for Mapbox (81ms)
✓ Generated png icons for Mapeo Mobile (607ms)
✓ Successfully created file 'build/mapeo-default-settings-v2.1.0.mapeosettings' (total 1299ms)
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You'll also see a .mapeosettings file inside of the build directory.

What is a .mapeosettings file?

A .mapeosettings file is a tar file, similar to a zip file. You can see the contents of the file by changing the file extension to .tar and using any application that can extract tar files.

Troubleshooting

If you already have done this and you are recreating presets from scratch, you may want to purge node_modules and install updated versions of the dependencies

In Mac or Linux, in the terminal:

rm -rf node_modules
npm install

If you're having more issues, please open an issue on the GitHub repository or e-mail our support hotline.