This section is for people who run, develop or integrate with Macrostrat's software. It starts with two overviews written for this site and continues with developer documentation maintained alongside the code in the macrostrat repository, which is updated whenever that code changes.
Overviews
- System architecture: the database, services, storage and infrastructure, and how they fit together
- Codebase: the repositories that make up Macrostrat and what each holds
Running Macrostrat
- Macrostrat in a Box: running a complete local instance
- Installation notes
- Environment configuration and write safety: configuring environments, and the safeguards against writing to the wrong one
- Loading working data
- Testing Macrostrat
Data formats and services
- Map Ingestion - Files Schema: the structure of staged map files
- Format documentation: the column ingestion format
- Using raster layers in QGIS: Macrostrat's raster tile services
