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A self-hostable REST-like API to get the time zone from geo coordinates
https://github.com/noandrea/geo2tz

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A self-hostable REST-like API to get the time zone from geo coordinates

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# Geo2Tz

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A self-host-able service to get the timezone given geo-coordinates (lat/lng)

Timezone data comes from [github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder](https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder).

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## Maturity Level

This project is considered mature and stable, having undergone extensive testing and refinement over time. It is now in a state where it can be reliably used in production environments. The following statistic shows the number of docker pulls for the project:

![Docker Pulls](https://img.shields.io/docker/pulls/noandrea/geo2tz?style=for-the-badge)

### Contributing
We value your feedback and contributions! If you encounter any bugs or have ideas for new features, please don't hesitate to [open an issue](https://github.com/noandrea/geo2tz/issues/new). Your input is crucial in helping us improve and evolve the project.

## Motivations

Geo-coordinates might be sensitive information to share in any context, this project provides a privacy-friendly, self-hosted solution to ensure that coordinates were not leaked to 3rd party services.

## API

the service exposes one API to retrieve the timezone given a pair of coordinates:

```http
GET /tz/${LATITUDE}/${LONGITUDE}
```

that returns a JSON reply (`http/200`), for example:

```console
curl -s http://localhost:2004/tz/51.477811/0 | jq
```

```json
{
"coords": {
"lat": 51.47781,
"lon": 0
},
"tz": "Europe/London"
}

```

or in case of errors (`http/4**`), for example:

```console
curl -v http://localhost:2004/tz/51.477811/1000 | jq
* Trying 127.0.0.1:2004...
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0* Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 2004 (#0)
> GET /tz/51.477811/1000 HTTP/1.1
> Host: localhost:2004
> User-Agent: curl/7.81.0
> Accept: */*
>
* Mark bundle as not supporting multiuse
< HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
< Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
< Vary: Origin
< Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2023 19:09:29 GMT
< Content-Length: 54
<
{ [54 bytes data]
100 54 100 54 0 0 89403 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 54000
* Connection #0 to host localhost left intact

```

```json
{
"message": "lon value 1000 out of range (-180/+180)"
}
```

The version of the database is exposed at `/tz/version`:

```console
curl -s http://localhost:2004/tz/version | jq
```

```json
{
"version": "2024a",
"url": "https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder/releases/tag/2024a",
"geo_data_url": "https://github.com/evansiroky/timezone-boundary-builder/releases/download/2024a/timezones-with-oceans.geojson.zip"
}
```

### Authorization

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:

```sh
docker run --pull=always -p 2004:2004 -e GEO2TZ_WEB_AUTH_TOKEN_VALUE=secret ghcr.io/noandrea/geo2tz:latest
```

will enable authorization. With the authorization enabled, a query that does not specify the token will fail with an HTTP code 401:

```sh
> 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:

```sh
> curl -s http://localhost:2004/tz/41.902782/12.496365\?t\=secret | jq
```

```json
{
"coords": {
"lat": 41.902782,
"lon": 12.496365
},
"tz": "Europe/Rome"
}
```

## Docker

Docker image is available at [geo2tz](https://github.com/noandrea/geo2tz/pkgs/container/geo2tz)

```sh
docker run --pull=always -p 2004:2004 ghcr.io/noandrea/geo2tz:latest
```

The image is built on [scratch](https://hub.docker.com/_/scratch):

## Docker compose

Docker compose YAML example

```yaml
version: '3'
services:
geo2tz:
container_name: geo2tz
image: ghcr.io/noandrea/geo2tz:latest
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"

```

## K8s

Kubernetes configuration example:

```yaml
---
# 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: ghcr.io/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

```

## Development notes

To update the timezone database you have a few options:

1. download the version specified in the `tzdata/version.json` file

```console
geo2tz update current
```

2. update to the latest version available

```console
geo2tz update latest
```

2. update to a specific version

```console
geo2tz update 2023b
```

the `update` command will download the timezone geojson zip and generate a version file in the `tzdata` directory, the version file is used to track the current version of the database.