Installation

Use pip (or easy_install):

pip install --upgrade geocommit

(If you don’t have pip yet, use easy_install pip to get it.)

Usage

Geo-enable a repository (installs a few hooks that enable keep track of your location for this repository):

git geo setup

Attach geo-information to HEAD:

git geo note

Fetch geolocation information from remote:

git geo fetch

Fetch and merge geolocation information:

git geo sync

Developing

git clone https://github.com/peritus/geocommit.git
python bootstrap.py
./bin/buildout

Crazy ideas

• foursquare integration

• 3rd party service with badges: * jetsetter badge (commits at five different airports) * mountain badge (commits at over 4000ft altitude)

• geocommit + git-remote-couch + geocouch === awesome!

• git geolog foo..bar > foobar.kml

• Chrome/Safari extension to display google maps all over github

Geocommit data format (v1.0)

We store a number of keys with values in git notes or hg commits. There is a long and a short format. Both define a set of key/value pairs in no particular order. The format version defines the allowed keys.

<version> is a version number of the format x.y <key> is an alphanumeric lowercase identifier without spaces or other special characters except _ and - <value> must not contain a linebreak, “,” or “;”

The short format is: geocommit(<version>): <key> <value>, …, <key> <value>;

The long format is, terminated by an empty line:

geocommit (<version) <key>: <value> … <key>: <value>

Version 1.0 of the format defines the keys:

• long (required) contains longitude value of a coordinate in WGS84

• lat (required) contains latitude value of a coordinate in WGS84

• src (required) contains the name of the data provider used to generate the geodata

• alt (optional) contains altitude in metres

• speed (optional) speed in metres / second

• dir (optional) direction of travel

• hacc (optional) horizontal accuracy of long/lat values in metres

• vacc (optional) vertical accuracy of altitude value in metres

Authors

Geocommit is a crazy idea that was initially hacked together on an even crazier weekend in December 2010 in Berlin.

• Nils Adermann (cli client, linux support, website, web service, github hook)

• Filip Noetzel (original idea, cli client, python packaging, initial Mac OS X support, chrome extension)

• David Soria Parra (website, mercurial support, web service, bitbucket hook)

• Andrew Wooster (significant Mac OS X improvements)