iot_map

This is code from a few years ago for a node.js "interactive" map of all things IoT around the world.

I stopped working on it and just putting it on github for my safe keeping and may look at it again.

If you clone this, it likely won't work at all so I wouldn't even bother.

I will need to push my Mongo dump as well which has all of the company and people information.

The docs/IoT Thing of Things.xlsx is a spreadsheet of companies and products that I hadn't yet added into Mongo. Kind of a backlog if you will.

Setup

1. Create a .env file in the root folder, replacing your_key with your Google Maps API key

GOOGLE_MAPS_API_KEY=your_key

2. Create a session secret, ChatGPT suggested this:

cat /dev/urandom | tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | fold -w 32 | head -n 1

• add the output to your .env file

SESSION_SECRET=your_session_secret_here

• this is how the code accesses the session secret from the environment variable:

const session = require('express-session');
require('dotenv').config(); 

app.use(session({
    secret: process.env.SESSION_SECRET,
    resave: true,
    saveUninitialized: true
}));

3. Add .env to .gitignore

Old notes in docs/setup.md

Permit your IP to access the Google API

1. Go to: https://whatismyipaddress.com/
2. Go to https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/credentials
3. Under API Keys, click your key
4. Under Set an application restriction click IP Addresses
5. Under API address restrictions add your IP from step 1

Mockup

countries/# countries/ca countries/canada

countries/canada/states

countries/canada/city/toronto city/toronto