Timezone lookup service

tzLookupService is a hobby project it provide the timezone name using the latitude and longitude is written in go language and expose his functionality via web using GIN framework

It also uses the data from the project

https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder

and the lookup of the data from the library

https://github.com/evanoberholster/timezoneLookup

The web service runs with Gin framework https://gin-gonic.com/

for convenience a makefile target was created to download the data, unzip it and process the geojson to create a BoltDB database with the timezones.

the script to create the timezone db comes from timezoneLookup "cmd/timezone.go"

to run the project:

go get -u https://github.com/jms/tzLookupService
cd ${GOPATH}/src/github.com/jms/tzLookupService
make create-tz-db
make run
curl 'localhost:8080?lat=12&lon=-86'

{"timezone":"America/Managua"}

Configuration

# changing to release mode and set a different port 
export GIN_MODE=release
export PORT=80

To run the project on a container, you can use podman or docker

podman build -f Dockerfile -t tzlookup
podman run --rm -p 8080:8080 tz_lookup