install notes / missing dependencies

[harry-wood]

I tried cloning this and running it locally because I was interested in helping develop improvements to the commons-on-osm.php map.

How do we "install" this code or otherwise get it running? We're missing some files in this repo. commons-on-osm.php references geo_param.php here: https://github.com/aiomaster/WIWOSM/blob/master/client/commons-on-osm.php#L16 and there's a reference to a local javascript file here:
https://github.com/aiomaster/WIWOSM/blob/master/client/commons-on-osm.php#L31 which is obviously OpenLayers but... patched? Should it be checked into this repo or I should download and rename OpenLayers there?

A good place for such install notes would be a README.md file in this repo

[kolossos]

Can you describe what you want to do? The point is that is hard to install stuff from WMFlabs on external servers, where you not have access to the wikimedia-databases. So it's sometimes easier to get an account and become a co-maintainer of the project. (Yes all lame excuses that we not have all files on Github.)

I added geo_param.php. JS-files are available on the server.

[harry-wood]

I just wanted to do front-end tweaks I think. I'll write out some more issues to describe them.

In the meantime you've fixed both those dependency problems actually.

I was able to get a fully functional copy running on a my local machine, pointed at the live server for the geocommons KML. That's all I need for my purposes. Running my own server & database isn't necessary. But a README file explaining some of this would be a good idea. I notice there's a 'server' directory in this repo, but I guess that's for the server end of some other scripts.

Pointing at the live server for the geocommons KML, I had to work around cross-origin request errors to get that working. I made a little php proxy. I could check that file in here but maybe it's not a recommended approach (Otherwise I guess the server might as well have CORS enabled?) I suppose a static test KML file checked in here might work just as well for a lot of dev purposes