Envizi Location Service

This tool enables automatic filling of theLATITUDE Y and LONGITUDE X columns in the Envizi Setup Config template, using the address details provided in the template.

Let'ss us look at how to install this application and run it.

Prerequisite

Python 3.x should be installed and available.

1. Installation

1.1 Download this repo

1. Download this repo (https://github.com/ibm-ecosystem-engineering/envizi-location-service).

2. Let's assume the repository has been downloaded, and available in the location /Users/xyz/envizi-location-service.

   Let's call this as a root folder.

   Don't forget to replace the /Users/xyz/envizi-location-service with your folder structure, wherever we refer in this document.

1.2 Create Python virtual environment

1. Open a new command or terminal window.

2. Goto the repository root folder by running the below command.

   Note: Don't forget to replace the /Users/xyz/envizi-location-service with your folder structure.

   cd /Users/xyz/envizi-location-service
   

3. Create python virtual environment by running the below command.

   python -m venv myvenv-location-svc
   source myvenv-location-svc/bin/activate
   

4. Install the required python packages by running the below command.

   python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
   

1.3 Create .env file

1. Create .env file with the below entries (you should be still in the root folder of the repo /Users/xyz/envizi-location-service )

# Environment variables
LOGLEVEL = INFO

LOCATION_API_URL = "https://api.weather.com/v3/location/search"
LOCATION_API_KEY = ""

OUTPUT_FOLDER = "output"
WRITE_INTERIM_FILES=TRUE

2. Update the LOCATION_API_URL and LOCATION_API_KEY properties with your data.

They are weather API URL and key.

1.4 Start the Python app

1. Run the below commands to start the app

   python src/main.py
   
   

2. Verify the app is working by opening the url http://localhost:5001 in your browser.

2 Using the application

1. Open the url http://localhost:5001/ in the browser

2. Click on Choose file button to select your config connector template.

   You can use the file - data/Envizi_SetupConfig_6.xlsx

   

3. The selected file might look like this: it includes some filled address-related fields, but the latitude and longitude fields are left blank

   

4. Click on Upload to send the selected file to the server for processing.

   

5. The file got processed and the latitude and longitude fields are filled with the appropriate values based on the address-related fields.

6. Click on Download file button to download the processed excel file.

   

7. You can see the downloaded file contains the latitude and longitude fields values.

   

The sample file is available here - data/Envizi_SetupConfig_6_result.xlsx