Geo2tz
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Get the timezone from geo coordinates (lat, lon).
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A self-host-able service to get the timezone given geo-coordinates (lat/long)
It does it by exposing the library from github.com/evanoberholster/timezoneLookup
Timezone data comes from github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder (release 2020d)
Geo-coordinates might be sensitive information to share in any context, and I needed a self-hosted solution to ensure that coordinates were not leaked to 3rd party services. On another side, this feature is nicely self-contained and having one service to expose it spares the effort to bundle the TZ database everywhere.
the service exposes only one API:
GET /tz/${LATITUDE}/${LONGITUDE}that returns a JSON reply (http/200):
{
"tz": "${TIMEZONE}",
"coords": {
"lat": ${LATITUDE},
"lon": ${LONGITUDE}
}
}or in case of errors (http/4**):
{
"message": "${DESCRIPTION}"
}Geo2Tz supports a basic token authorization mechanism, if the configuration value for web.auth_token_value is a non-empty string, geo2tz will check the query parameter value to authorize incoming requests.
For example, running the service with:
docker run -p 2004:2004 -e GEO2TZ_WEB_AUTH_TOKEN_VALUE=secret noandrea/geo2tzwill enable authorization. With the authorization enabled, a query that does not specify the token will fail with an HTTP code 401:
> curl -sv http://localhost:2004/tz/41.902782/12.496365 | jq* Trying 127.0.0.1:2004...
* Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 2004 (#0)
> GET /tz/41.902782/12.496365 HTTP/1.1
> Host: localhost:2004
> User-Agent: curl/7.81.0
> Accept: */*
>
* Mark bundle as not supporting multiuse
< HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
< Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
< Vary: Origin
< Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2022 20:06:56 GMT
< Content-Length: 27
<
{ [27 bytes data]
* Connection #0 to host localhost left intact
{
"message": "unauthorized"
}Passing the token in the query parameters will succeed instead:
> curl -s http://localhost:2004/tz/41.902782/12.496365\?t\=secret | jq{
"coords": {
"lat": 41.902782,
"lon": 12.496365
},
"tz": "Europe/Rome"
}Docker image is available at geo2tzt
docker run -p 2004:2004 github.com/noandrea/geo2tzThe image is built on scratch, the image size is ~92MB:
Docker compose YAML example
version: '3'
services:
geo2tz:
container_name: geo2tz
image: github.com/noandrea/geo2tz
ports:
- 2004:2004
# uncomment to enable authorization via request token
# environment:
# - GEO2TZ_WEB_AUTH_TOKEN_VALUE=somerandomstringhere
# - GEO2TZ_WEB_AUTH_TOKEN_PARAM_NAME=t
# - GEO2TZ_WEB_LISTEN_ADDRESS=":2004"
Kubernetes configuration example:
---
# Deployment
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
labels:
app: geo2tz
name: geo2tz
spec:
replicas: 1
revisionHistoryLimit: 3
selector:
matchLabels:
app: geo2tz
template:
metadata:
labels:
app: geo2tz
spec:
containers:
- env:
# if this var is not empty it will enabled token authorization for requests
#- name: GEO2TZ_WEB_AUTH_TOKEN_VALUE
# value: "secretsmaybebetter" # default is empty
#- name: GEO2TZ_WEB_AUTH_TOKEN_PARAM_NAME
# value: "t" # default value
#- name: GEO2TZ_WEB_LISTEN_ADDRESS
# value: ":2004" # default value
image: github.com/noandrea/geo2tz:latest
imagePullPolicy: Always
name: geo2tz
ports:
- name: http
containerPort: 2004
---
# Service
# the service for the above deployment
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
name: geo2tz-service
spec:
type: ClusterIP
ports:
- name: http
port: 80
protocol: TCP
targetPort: http
selector:
app: geo2tz
Before you begin, choose the release version (following Semver), as a convention, this project uses the form of vX.Y.Z for version information.
Once you choose the appropriate release version run the following commands from the main branch. Note that at this point all the relevant branches should be merged.
Check out the main branch:
git checkout mainMake sure to have the last version
In this example, we assume that you want to release the version v1.0.0.
Generate the changelog and prepare the release:
make release-prepare APP_VERSION=v1.0.0Prepare the tag:
make git-tag APP_VERSION=v1.0.0Push the tag and the main branch:
git push && git push --tagsCreate a git release:
make gh-publish-release APP_VERSION=v1.0.0That's it!
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