location-server

Return state from lat/long using point-in-polygon

Objective

What we need is a server to tell us which state, if any, a point is in. Some simplified geometries are included in states.json (so greatly simplified, that some of the smaller ones disappear).

Dependencies

Python 3

Run Instructions

You can either run state-server from the command line:

$ ./state-server &
[1] 21507
$ curl  -d "longitude=-77.036133&latitude=40.513799" http://localhost:8080/
["Pennsylvania"]
$

or you can start it from the command line:

$ ./state-server

and test it through using a browser GUI by opening http://localhost:8080/ in a web browser.