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 # Gisaf
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+*Gisaf* is a web based GIS (Geographical Information System) initially developed
+for the CSR Goematics unit in Auroville, India.
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+## Features
+
+- Layers defined with Python plugins or ANSI-standard categories
+- Support of different geographical projections
+- Integrated administration interface
+- Export of data from standard formats (Geopackage, Shapefile)
+- Import and update of data managed in a well defined workflow with "baskets"
+- Role-based access to data
+- Support temporal and other data for different features
+- Detailed information for all features
+- Tagging of features
+- Customizable, user triggered actions
+- Background map
+- Customizable base maps (domain specific set of layers)
+- Plugin architecture: add functions with Python packages
+
+## Software stack
+
+- Python: the Swiss Army knife language
+- Pydantic: the power of typing
+- FastAPI: web wizzard
+- SQLModel: SQL (ORM)
+- Postgis: geographical extension for the PostGresql database
+- Pandas and Geopandas: the data jugglers
+
+## Installation / deployment
+
+See the documentation in the deployment directory.