Releases · Canadian-Geospatial-Platform/geoview-api-geolocator

Summary of Changes (Apr 15, 2025 → Dec 19, 2025)

🚀 New Features

Added dashboard functionality.

Introduced Forward Sortation Area (FSA) as an additional geolocation source.

Indexed approximately 250,000 NTS grid records into OpenSearch.

Exposed NTS grid data through the API.

Added NTS grid support to the geolocator API with minor enhancements to the NTS API.

Introduced a self-hosted Nominatim setup.

Added an NRCan Geolocation Mock API implemented using AWS Lambda and OpenSearch.

🧠 Backend & Data Processing

Added a backend Lambda for Forward Sortation Area (FSA) processing.

Added and updated Jupyter notebooks for FSA data processing.

Added Jupyter notebooks for indexing NTS, FSA, and NRCan Geolocation API data.

Updated processing notebooks to support new data sources and workflows.

Removed IP address indexing to simplify the data model and reduce indexing overhead.

🛠 Fixes & Improvements

Improved timeout handling across all request queries.

Applied minor fixes to the FSA API following its initial release.

Made minor improvements and adjustments to the NTS API.

🧹 Maintenance & Documentation

Cleaned up and refactored Jupyter notebooks for improved maintainability.

Updated README documentation for version v2.1.4.

📌 Overall Progression

April: Focus on stability and resilience (timeout handling).

June: Major functional expansion with dashboard support and FSA integration.

July: Significant scalability improvements with large-scale NTS indexing and API exposure.

December: Infrastructure evolution with self-hosted geolocation services, mock APIs, expanded indexing workflows, and updated documentation.

What's Changed

first commit by @vijendtra in #1
Bump ejs from 3.1.6 to 3.1.8 by @dependabot in #2
Bump terser from 5.12.1 to 5.14.2 by @dependabot in #3
Bump async from 2.6.3 to 2.6.4 by @dependabot in #4
core(repo): Update repo with latest structure and UI by @jolevesq in #24
fix(repo): Fix missing folders and bad locale by @jolevesq in #26
lambda_handler prototype by @David-Henandez-nrcan in #27
schema for geonames by @David-Henandez-nrcan in #31
schema(api): Add the input and output schema for the api by @jolevesq in #33
Bump loader-utils from 2.0.2 to 2.0.4 by @dependabot in #30
core(schema): Add Geoname metadata file by @jolevesq in #36
in-API script update by @David-Henandez-nrcan in #40
Update function geolocator by @David-Henandez-nrcan in #41
Issues #43 and #44 by @David-Henandez-nrcan in #46
Add geolocator class module by @David-Henandez-nrcan in #48
Create performance tests by @David-Henandez-nrcan in #49
Add multiprocessing to improve the response time by @David-Henandez-nrcan in #51
Add 'locate' service and adapt code to new schema's variations by @David-Henandez-nrcan in #52
fix(ui): first ui draft by @jolevesq in #56
Add new schema for NTS by @David-Henandez-nrcan in #54
55 UI repair by @jolevesq in #58
Modify schemas and code to simplify parameters manipulation by @David-Henandez-nrcan in #57
55 UI by @David-Henandez-nrcan in #60
add function 'average' to calculate lat,lng from bounding box by @David-Henandez-nrcan in #62
Fix url link for code tables in geonames schemas by @David-Henandez-nrcan in #64
Add .csv tables and code to replace consummng json from url by @David-Henandez-nrcan in #66
fix(build): Import react-dom-router by @jolevesq in #68
Rebase/feature/api lambda deployment by @pvautour in #69
Added custom exception handling code to catch specific errors by @bo-lu in #74
75 missing table codes by @JeffreyAshtonNRCan in #77
78 province names by @JeffreyAshtonNRCan in #79
80 locate key tags by @JeffreyAshtonNRCan in #81
82 location names by @JeffreyAshtonNRCan in #83
84 remove duplicate schema files by @JeffreyAshtonNRCan in #85
86 postal code tags added by @JeffreyAshtonNRCan in #87
88 disable nts key for now by @JeffreyAshtonNRCan in #89
90 add debug parameter by @JeffreyAshtonNRCan in #91
92 new category field by @JeffreyAshtonNRCan in #93
94 new table parameter by @JeffreyAshtonNRCan in #95
94 table parameter and debug fix by @JeffreyAshtonNRCan in #96
94 debug parameter renamed to dev by @JeffreyAshtonNRCan in #97
98 table update by @JeffreyAshtonNRCan in #99
100 cache results by @JeffreyAshtonNRCan in #101
102 province standards by @JeffreyAshtonNRCan in #103
104 response code and table urls by @JeffreyAshtonNRCan in #105
106 code table update field by @JeffreyAshtonNRCan in #107
106 fix duplicates by @JeffreyAshtonNRCan in #108
109 add office category by @JeffreyAshtonNRCan in #110