Calling http get from golang
Using http to "get" stuff is relatively straight forward in golang, I've decided to make a one liner function to handle that, and then use it alongside google maps, to convert postcodes to latlongs using:
https://developers.google.com/maps/do...
We also take advantage of Dave Cheney's library on errors,
https://github.com/pkg/errors
Here's his video on the subject
• GopherCon 2016: Don't Just Check Errors Ha...
We also use a great json library
https://github.com/tidwall/gjson
and to see my workers thing I use at the end, my previous video
• Fun with Channels in Golang