CLI

The Data Hub provides the following CLI commands that ca be run via Djangos manage.py system.

INFO

If you run the system inside a Docker container you need to prefix the commands with docker compose exec datahub, i.e., docker compose exec datahub python manage.py <command>.

Load shapes

To import the prepared shape files use the following commands. A GeoPackage (.gpkg) or Shapefile (.shp) can be used. See the Shape documentation for required/optional attributes in the file.

python manage.py loadshapes <file>

Data Layer

Create a new Data Layer:

python manage.py dl_init <data layer key>

To download or process a defined Data Layer.

python manage.py dl_download <data layer key>
python manage.py dl_process <data layer key>

Centroid

To calculate the centroid of all loaded shapes use the following command.

python manage.py centroid

Export

Export the database contents to a single file. This doesn't export raw data that are stored on the file system, only the database contents. It's a wrapper for pg_dump.

python manage.py dump [<file>]

Import

Imports a previously created dump. It's a wrapper for pg_restore.

python manage.py restore <file>