standort

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Standort

Standort provides location based information.

Location

The following locations are covered.

IP Address

The service allows you to get the location by IP address using geoip2.

Countries/Continents

The service allows you to get the location based on latitude/longitude using the power of free maps.

Dependencies

API

The api has the following versions.

Versions

The service contains 2 versions of the API. These are as follows:

• V1 - has separate endpoints for IP and countries.
• V2 - combines both into one endpoint and uses the following headers:
  • For IP address we will use X-Forwarded-For header.
  • For geo location we would use Geolocation header. The format is described as the geo URI.

Development

If you would like to contribute, here is how you can get started.

Structure

The project follows the structure in golang-standards/project-layout.

Dependencies

Please make sure that you have the following installed:

• Ruby
• Golang

Style

This project favours the Uber Go Style Guide

Setup

The get yourself setup, please run the following:

make setup

Binaries

To make sure everything compiles for the app, please run the following:

make build-test

Features

To run all the features, please run the following:

make features

Changes

To see what has changed, please have a look at CHANGELOG.md