What is good for?

As a geolocation service to feed geloclue2. I only use geoclue2 to update the timezone information on my device. With the retirement of the Mozilla Location Service (mozilla/ichnaea#2065) the only option was to move to Google Location Service.

I don't need accurate location data for timezone, the ip-api.com service service suits well enough. So I build this local service.

How to use it?

Start the service and adjust the url in /etc/geoclue/geoclue.conf

url=http://localhost:8080/v1/geolocate

Usage: cheap-ichnaea [OPTIONS]

Options:
  -p, --port <PORT>            The port number to listen on [default: 8080]
  -t, --ttl-cache <TTL_CACHE>  Cache TTL in seconds [default: 1800]
  -h, --help                   Print help
  -V, --version                Print version

Features

• Caching of responses (--ttl-cache 3200)
• Retrying to connect, when connection fails