https://github.com/zbycz/which-country

Static API for fast country lookup
https://github.com/zbycz/which-country

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Static API for fast country lookup

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/zbycz/which-country
• Owner: zbycz
• License: mit
• Created: 2023-12-11T19:21:01.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-05-12T10:15:43.000Z (7 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-13T10:30:58.575Z (7 months ago)
• Language: Shell
• Size: 98.8 MB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# which-country DEPREACTED

Static API for fast country lookup

The downloaded data itself follows the license of OpenStreetMap, which is [ODbL](https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/). 

**INFO**

More info about algorithms at [`/create` folder](create/). But after all this idea is not ideal, it generates eg 122MB of files which has to be hosted somewhere. It would be better to use utfgrid / codegrid ([lib](https://github.com/hlaw/codegrid-js)), which generates just 1.5MB for whole world, but the generator script is lost and the code is quite old.

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- https://country.is/ IP to Country code

- http://api.geonames.org/countryCodeJSON?lat=49.03&lng=10.2&username=demo

- https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?latlng=11.2742848,75.8013801&key=YOUR_API_KEY_HERE

BETTER:

- https://github.com/hlaw/codegrid-js

  - https://github.com/mapbox/utfgrid-spec

  - https://openlayers.org/en/latest/examples/utfgrid.html

  - fetches 35kb for world, then 100-300kb for tile

  - tile storage = 10 MB, zip = 1.5 MB

  - npm pkg https://github.com/QuinsZouls/react-codegrid

- approximate tz lookup in 7kB - for inspiration: https://github.com/photostructure/tz-lookup