required frameworks:
- npm
- node
- grunt (and perhaps grunt-cli)
- bower
- postgress & postgis


to get this app to do something, execute the following commands:
> npm install
(install dependent packages as described in package.json)
> bower update
(pulls down web libraries as specified in bower.json)
> grunt server
(runs the default grunt task, followed by the execute grunt task, refer to Gruntfile.coffeescript for more accurate information)

open a browswer and navigate to localhost:3000