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Geocoder API

Offers an unified API for multiple geocoders like Addok, OpenCageData, Here, Google based on countries distribution. The main idea of this API is to define some specific geocoder for some countries and a fallback geocoder for all other countries. Build in Ruby with a Grape REST swagger API compatible with geocodejson-spec. Internal use of Geocoder Gem.

Build Status

Local installation

Prerequisite

You need to install prerequisite packages :

apt-get install -y git build-essential zlib1g-dev gdal-bin zlib1g libsqlite3-mod-spatialite libsqlite3-dev libspatialite-dev

Installation

If you need to create a kml, install package containing ogr2ogr exec from system package (GDAL).

In geocoder-api as root directory:

bundle install
# Download and build French KML boundaries
(cd contrib && sh ./osm2france+dom-geojson.sh)

Running (dev/test only)

Use Docker Compose to develop Mapotempo Geocoder

Launch necessary services

docker compose up -d

generate necessary data

By default it creates data for 2A corsica (317 Kb)

./initialize.sh

To build other department pass it as an argument (full for France)

./initialize.sh 33

Launch api

Access it at http://localhost:8558

bundle exec rackup -p 8558

Building images (dev/test only)

If you need to work with local built addok images and api

docker compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose-build.yml build

The countries data sanitizer/countryInfo.txt for supported languages can be update from https://download.geonames.org/export/dump/countryInfo.txt . The data is under creative commons attributions from GeoNames.

Usage

The API is defined in Swagger format at http://localhost:8558/swagger_doc and can be tested with Swagger-UI https://swagger.mapotempo.com/?url=https://geocoder.mapotempo.com/swagger_doc

Geocoding and Address completion

The search can be done by full text free form or by fields. Prefer fields form when you have an already splitted address. For any form, the country is a required field, use a simple country name or code in two or three chars.

Search can be guided by proximity. Set latitude and longitude of an close location.

Reverse geocoding

Retrieve the closest address from latitude and longitude position by GET request.

Unitary request

Unitary requesting convert only one address or coordinates at once using GET request.

Geocoding:

http://localhost:8558/0.1/geocode.json?&api_key=demo&country=fr&query=2+Avenue+Pierre+Angot+64000+Pau

Returns geocodejson (and geojson) valid result:

{
  "type":"FeatureCollection",
  "geocoding":{
    "version":"draft",
    "licence":"ODbL",
    "attribution":"BANO",
    "query":"2 Avenue Pierre Angot 64000 Pau"
  },
  "features":[
    {
      "properties":{
        "geocoding":{
          "score":0.7223744186046511,
          "type":"house",
          "label":"2 Avenue du Président Pierre Angot 64000 Pau",
          "name":"2 Avenue du Président Pierre Angot",
          "housenumber":"2",
          "postcode":"64000",
          "city":"Pau"
        }
      },
      "type":"Feature",
      "geometry":{
        "coordinates":[
          -0.367199,
          43.319972
        ],
        "type":"Point"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Reverse:

http://localhost:8558/0.1/reverse.json?api_key=demo&lat=44&lng=0
{
  "type": "FeatureCollection",
  "geocoding": {
    "version": "draft",
    "licence": "ODbL",
    "attribution": "BANO"
  },
  "features": [
    {
      "properties": {
        "geocoding": {
          "score": 0.9999613672785329,
          "type": "house",
          "label": "1905 Chemin de la Lanne 40310 Gabarret",
          "name": "1905 Chemin de la Lanne",
          "housenumber": "1905",
          "postcode": "40310",
          "city": "Gabarret"
        }
      },
      "type": "Feature",
      "geometry": {
        "coordinates": [
          0.001275,
          44.002642
        ],
        "type": "Point"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Batch request

Batch convert a list in json or CSV format using POST request.

curl -v -X POST -H "Content-Type: text/csv" --data-binary @in.csv http://localhost:8558/0.1/geocode.csv?api_key=demo > out.csv

Examples

Geocode

Geocode full text address

Reverse geocode

Get address from lat/lng