RestAPI implementation for Spatial Data

A web API developed using golang to find neighbours for a country or search for a country name. Data for countries taken from datahub

Setup and Execution

• Clone the repository in the desired directory

  > git clone https://github.com/GarvitSadhwani/spatialDataRestAPI
  

• Install gdal if not present
• Credentials to the PostGIS database are present in docker-compose.yml file
• Start Docker

  > docker compose up
  

• Run the following command to import countries.geojason data to the PostGIS database. This creates a table 'spatialdatadb' in the PostGIS database which is used by the code

  > ogr2ogr -f "PostgreSQL" PG:"dbname=spatialdata user=pixxeldb password=pixxeldb" "countries.geojson" -nln spatialdatadb -append
  

• Execute the main.go file

  > go run main.go
  

• The API will be hosted on localhost:8080

Features

• Search for a country
• Find neighbours for a country on the data list
• Add or Delete any country
• More features coming soon!

Dependencies

This app runs with the help of go-chi and jack's driver for PostgreSQL