A node.js server used to get the biggest or the closest cities based on a given HTTP request.
This server's purpose is to interrogate an ElasticSearch index and a MongoDB database, and to return geolocation-related data. It relies on data found on http://www.geonames.org/. You can use this server to retrieve the approximative location of an IPV4 address, to get more details about a city identified by its geonameid, or to find the closest (or biggest) cities matching a given criteria.
The server accepts only HTTP GET requests, and returns appropriatly filled JSON trees.
This server was created using Express <http://expressjs.com/>_.
It supports JSONP <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSONP>_ and
CORS <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-origin_resource_sharing>_ requests.
In order to make the Geonames Server run, you need to have installed MongoDB, ElasticSearch, PHP and NodeJS + NPM.
MongoDB
To install MongoDB, you should follow
the official MongoDB guides <http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Quickstart>_.
ElasticSearch
If you use homebrew <http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/>, you can run
brew install elasticsearch in order to install ElasticSearch.
Otherwise, follow the official guide <http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/setup/installation.html>.
NodeJS & npm
To install NodeJS, if you use homebrew, a simple brew install node is
enough. Otherwise, you can download it from the
Node.js official website <http://nodejs.org/>_.
To ensure the proper functioning of these operations,
curl <http://fr2.php.net/manual/en/book.curl.php>,
mongo <http://fr2.php.net/manual/en/book.mongo.php> extensions for PHP and
composer <http://getcomposer.org/download/> are required.
See mongo extension install details here <http://php.net/manual/fr/mongo.installation.php>_
Finally, if you want the geolocation to work, you will need the libgeoip C
library, version 1.4.8 or higher. You can either install it through a
package manager (such as homebrew or aptitude), or build it using
the following commands (source <http://github.com/kuno/GeoIP>_):
wget http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/api/c/GeoIP-1.4.8.tar.gz
tar -xvzf GeoIP-1.4.8.tar.gz
cd GeoIP-1.4.8
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install
Once all required dependencies are installed, you must set the configuration files located in the config folder.
First copy the configuration sample files and fill appropriate values according to your system setup.
cp ./config/elasticsearch.cfg.sample ./config/elasticsearch.cfg
cp ./config/mongo.cfg.sample ./config/mongo.cfg
cp ./config/server.json.sample ./config/server.json
** ElasticSearch configuration**
elastic_host="127.0.0.1"
elastic_port="9200"
elastic_scheme="http"
elastic_index="geonames"
elastic_index_test="tests"
** MongoDB configuration**
mongo_host="127.0.0.1"
mongo_port="27017"
mongo_user=""
mongo_pass=""
mongo_database="geonames"
mongo_database_test="tests"
** Server configuration**
{
"app": {
"verbose": false,
"port": 3000,
"allowed_domains": ["*"],
"max_result_per_page" : 30
},
"geo": {
"geolitepath": "./resources/data/GeoLiteCity.dat"
}
}Once dependencies are installed, you need to fill the MongoDB database with geonames data, and then index this data with ElasticSearch.
To do so, make sure MongoDB and ElasticSearch are running then run the following command within the root folder:
make install
It will download in resources folder the necessary files from the geonames servers, format them to make them work with MongoDB, import them to MongoDB, and index the new entries in ElasticSearch.
Note : The installation process takes at least one hour.
From now on, you should be able to access to your ElasticSearch index through
your web browser or through any request-forming tool (such as curl),
as described here <http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/query-dsl/>_.
For instance, you can try:
curl -X GET "$elastic_host/$index_name/cities/_count"
This should return you a JSON object containing, under the "count" field, the number of entries indexed under your cluster.
To start the server, make sure you have node installed, and run:
node server
Then, you can send GET requests to it (through a web browser or any request tool such as curl).
All responses from the GeonamesServer include required headers to be
CORS <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-origin_resource_sharing>_ compliant
The GeonamesServer supports JSONP <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSONP> requests.
The callback parameter is callback.
Request
/ip?ip=5.49.69.114&callback=myFunction
Response
myFunction({
"score": 581701.56,
"geonameid": 2992090,
"name": "Montreuil",
"country": {
"name": "France",
"code": "FR"
},
"timezone": "Europe/Paris",
"feature": {
"class": "P",
"code": "PPL"
},
"population": 90652,
"location": {
"latitude": 48.86415,
"longitude": 2.44322
},
"names": [
"montreuil",
"montrej",
"montreuil",
"montreuil-sous-bois",
"монтрей"
],
"admin1Code": "A8",
"admin2Code": 93,
"admin3Code": 931,
"admin4Code": 93048,
"updatedOn": "2012-01-18",
"region": {
"code": "FR.A8",
"name": "Île-de-France"
}
})The following is a list of available routes. All these routes can only be accessed through GET requests.
Any other methods will result in a 405 Method not allowed error.
The results will be sent with the application/json mimetype.
If the sort parameter is specified and set to closeness but the location of the request could not be determined (due to a lack of data within the GEOIP database or GEOIP module not being installed), the current sort will be replaced by the population sort.
If a mandatory parameter or unknown parameter value is detected the server will respond with a 400 Bad Request error.
Returns a quick documentation in HTML format.
Gets the list of all the cities in the database, limited to max_result_per_page results by default.
max_result_per_page is setted from configuration files or overridden with limit query parameter parameter up to 100.
-
sort (optional, string, default value : population) available values :
- population : The results will be sorted by population.
- closeness : The results will be sorted by closeness to the place the request was sent from.
-
name (optional, string) : Filters city whose begins with a given name.
-
country (optional, string) : Only cities located in countries whose name begins with this parameter will be returned.
-
limit (optional, string) : The number of results.
-
client-ip (optional, string) : This parameter is used within the closeness sort parameter to provide a custom remote IP.
/city?sort=closeness&client-ip=80.12.81.19
Here is the result returned for the request /city/name=paris&limit=2
[
{
"score": 884.5834,
"geonameid": 2988507,
"name": "Paris",
"country": {
"name": "France",
"code": "FR"
},
"timezone": "Europe/Paris",
"feature": {
"class": "P",
"code": "PPLC"
},
"population": 2138551,
"location": {
"latitude": 48.85341,
"longitude": 2.3488
},
"names": [
"paris",
"baariis",
"bahliz",
"gorad paryzh",
"lungsod ng paris",
"lutece",
"lutetia",
"lutetia parisorum",
"par",
"pa-ri",
"paarys",
"palika",
"paname",
"pantruche",
"paraeis",
"paras",
"pari",
"paries",
"parigge",
"pariggi",
"parighji",
"parigi",
"pariis",
"pariisi",
"parij",
"parijs",
"paris",
"parisi",
"parixe",
"pariz",
"parize",
"parizh",
"parizh osh",
"parizh'",
"parizo",
"parizs",
"pariž",
"parys",
"paryz",
"paryzius",
"paryż",
"paryžius",
"paräis",
"parís",
"paríž",
"parîs",
"parĩ",
"parī",
"parīze",
"paříž",
"páras",
"párizs",
"ville-lumiere",
"ville-lumière",
"ba li",
"barys",
"pairisa",
"pali",
"pari",
"paris",
"parys",
"paryzh",
"perisa",
"pryz",
"pyaris",
"pyarisa",
"pyrs",
"παρίσι",
"горад парыж",
"париж",
"париж ош",
"парижь",
"париз",
"парис",
"паріж",
"փարիզ",
"פאריז",
"פריז",
"باريس",
"پارىژ",
"پاريس",
"پاریس",
"پیرس",
"ܦܐܪܝܣ",
"पॅरिस",
"पेरिस",
"पैरिस",
"প্যারিস",
"ਪੈਰਿਸ",
"પૅરિસ",
"பாரிஸ்",
"పారిస్",
"ಪ್ಯಾರಿಸ್",
"പാരിസ്",
"ปารีส",
"ཕ་རི།",
"ပါရီမြို့",
"პარიზი",
"ፓሪስ",
"ប៉ារីស",
"パリ",
"巴黎",
"파리"
],
"admin1Code": "A8",
"admin2Code": 75,
"admin3Code": 751,
"admin4Code": 75056,
"updatedOn": "2012-08-19",
"region": {
"code": "FR.A8",
"name": "Île-de-France"
}
},
{
"score": 312.7515,
"geonameid": 4717560,
"name": "Paris",
"country": {
"name": "United States",
"code": "US"
},
"timezone": "America/Chicago",
"feature": {
"class": "P",
"code": "PPLA2"
},
"population": 25171,
"location": {
"latitude": 33.66094,
"longitude": -95.55551
},
"names": [
"paris",
"prx",
"paris",
"parizh",
"barys",
" tksas",
"parys",
" tgzas",
"париж",
"парис",
"باريس، تكساس",
"پاریس، تگزاس"
],
"admin1Code": "TX",
"admin2Code": 277,
"admin3Code": "",
"admin4Code": "",
"updatedOn": "2011-05-14",
"region": {
"code": "US.TX",
"name": "Texas"
}
}
]Returns the city which geonameid value is equal to the given id.
Result for /city/2992092
{
"score": 0.034130126,
"geonameid": 2992092,
"name": "Montreuil",
"country": {
"name": "France",
"code": "FR"
},
"timezone": "Europe/Paris",
"feature": {
"class": "P",
"code": "PPL"
},
"population": 698,
"location": {
"latitude": 46.408,
"longitude": -0.83756
},
"names": [
"montreuil",
"montrej",
"montreuil",
"монтрей"
],
"admin1Code": "B5",
"admin2Code": 85,
"admin3Code": 851,
"admin4Code": 85148,
"updatedOn": "2012-01-18",
"region": {
"code": "FR.B5",
"name": "Pays de la Loire"
}
}Returns the city in which the given IP address is located
Result for /ip?ip=5.49.69.114
{
"score": 581701.56,
"geonameid": 2992090,
"name": "Montreuil",
"country": {
"name": "France",
"code": "FR"
},
"timezone": "Europe/Paris",
"feature": {
"class": "P",
"code": "PPL"
},
"population": 90652,
"location": {
"latitude": 48.86415,
"longitude": 2.44322
},
"names": [
"montreuil",
"montrej",
"montreuil",
"montreuil-sous-bois",
"монтрей"
],
"admin1Code": "A8",
"admin2Code": 93,
"admin3Code": 931,
"admin4Code": 93048,
"updatedOn": "2012-01-18",
"region": {
"code": "FR.A8",
"name": "Île-de-France"
}
}GeonamesServer can return data formated in json.
You found a bug and resolved it ? You added a feature you want to share ?
You optimized the code or made it more aesthetically pleasing ? You found
a typo in this doc and fixed it ? Feel free to send a
Pull Request <http://help.github.com/send-pull-requests/>_
on GitHub, we will be glad to merge your code.
This server relies on Mocha <http://visionmedia.github.com/mocha/>_
and Supertest <https://github.com/visionmedia/supertest>_ for unit testing.
All you have to do is to run the following command in the root folder:
make test
This project is licensed under the MIT license.