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Geonition requirements document

This document describes the technical requirements for Geonition. Geonition is a continuously evolving project and technology and so this document is a living document. When a change happens in this document the change should also be reflected to the technical architecture, design and service.

If this document becomes too big or the requirements too conflicting then a decision to separate the requirements might be in place. Also in this way Geonition product/services should increase

Business goals

The business goals are to be able to maintain this on top of the cloud and sell licenses to users so that they will be able to collect and analyze geographical data. The service comes with consulting and manual analyzing work and expertise to as broad area as possible.

Main domain concepts

The service provides a way of save, store, update and delete geographical data tat is connected to a user or owner. The data can be presented in 2D, 3D or 4D as time being the fourth dimension. Analysis methods and calculation programs should be provided to the customer so that dumping the data out for analysis is possible.

Concept Description
geoJSON Json format for describing geographical data
time dimension of data The data is valid at some point in time and thus has a beginning time and an end time

System overview

User groups

User group Description Number of users Importance of the group
SoftGIS developers The developers are creating place based questionnaires for the needs of urban planning and research 3 Important

Functional requirements

Id Requirement Importance for customer Impact on architecture Development effort Status Related test cases and code (commits)
1 The REST should provide a way to retrieve the data in CSV format Important Small Small Implemented data_processing Django application offers this service
2 There should be a possibility to see the usage of the REST service. This makes it easier to find weird functionality of the services in an easy way instead of querying the database etc. High Small High Accepted
3 There should be client side Javascript functions to support querying and retrieving information from the server. This lowers the amount of bugs and efficiency of the queries. Also it makes developing HTML Javascript user interfaces faster. High Medium Small Accepted

Non-functional requirements

Id Requirement Importance for customer Impact on architecture Development effort Related use case Related test cases and code(commits)
1 The REST API should have a short response time Important High Medium
2 The API should enable support many different kind of clients e.g. Javascript, AJAX, Python httplib. The requirement is that it should not be conflicting with any of the existing ways to connect over HTTP. High Small Medium
3 The API should work side by side with other API:s as much as possible an minimize conflicts High High Medium

Solution ideas

Id Idea Importance for customer Impact on architecture Development effort Source Related requirement

Constraints

Try to minimize the constraints and get rid of them when they appear.

Id Constraint