Location Data API - Sri Lanka

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Technologies
   • Implemantations
   • Hosting
3. Use Cases
4. Getting Started
5. Project Setup
6. Contributing
7. Acknowledgements

Introduction

Developers can use this API to get datails of cities, districts and provinces which located all around the Sri Lanka. This API can easily intergarte to you appication using particular URI.

Technologies

Implemantations

• MongoDB
• NodeJS

Hosting

• Heroku
• DigitalOcean

Use Cases

• Developers can get major cities and sub areas in each district
• GPS cordinates (Latitude and Longitude) are avilabe for each major city and sub areas. GPS cordinates can be use with Google Maps and other GPS/ Map services
• Developers can easily get Administrative Districts of the Colombo Mucipal Council with GPS cordinates, Administrative Distict Name and Sub Area (Known name like Kollupitiya, Modara, etc.)
• Users can get all the disticts and provinces in Sri Lanka

Getting Started

API Documentation

1. Get Major Cities And Sub Areas in Sri Lanka

   https://locatesrilanka.herokuapp.com/cities 

2. Get All Provinces in Sri Lanka

   https://locatesrilanka.herokuapp.com/provinces

3. Get All Districts in Sri Lanka

   https://locatesrilanka.herokuapp.com/districts

4. Get GPS Cordinates of major city or sub area in Sri Lanka

   https://locatesrilanka.herokuapp.com/cities/cordinates/[CITY NAME IN ENGLISH]

Example

Assume user needs to find GPS cordinates of Kadduwela, Sri Lanka

   https://locatesrilanka.herokuapp.com/cities/cordinates/Kaduwela

5. Get all major cities or sub areas in selected distict Sri Lanka

   https://locatesrilanka.herokuapp.com/cities/cordinates/[DISTRICT ID]

Example

Assume user needs to find GPS cordinates of Colombo District, Sri Lanka

   https://locatesrilanka.herokuapp.com/cities/byDistrict/5

6. Get Administrative Districts of the Colombo Mucipal Council, Sri Lanka

   https://locatesrilanka.herokuapp.com/cities/colombo_mca/[COLOMBO SUB AREA]

Example

Assume user needs to find details of Colombo 1, Sri Lanka

   https://locatesrilanka.herokuapp.com/cities/colombo_mca/1

7. Get all Administrative Districts of the Colombo Mucipal Council, Sri Lanka

   https://locatesrilanka.herokuapp.com/cities/colombo_mca

8. Get all Districts in Selected Province

   https://locatesrilanka.herokuapp.com/districts/byprovince/[PROVINCE ID]

Example

Assume user needs to find districts in western province, Sri Lanka

   https://locatesrilanka.herokuapp.com/districts/byprovince/1

9. Get count of all Districts in Selected Province

   https://locatesrilanka.herokuapp.com/districts/districtcount/[PROVINCE ID]

Example

Assume user needs to find count of districts in western province, Sri Lanka

   https://locatesrilanka.herokuapp.com/districts/districtcount/1

Project Setup

1. Clone the repo

   git clone https://github.com/PasinduS96/location-api-sl.git

2. Install NPM packages

   npm install

3. Create .env file for environment varialbes
4. Create environment variables

   PORT=
   MONGO_URI=

5. Run Project

   npm start

Contributing

Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to be learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.

1. Fork the Project
2. Create your Feature Branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
3. Commit your Changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')
4. Push to the Branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
5. Open a Pull Request

Acknowledgements

• Sri Lanka Provinces Districts Cities Database

License

MIT © PasinduS96