Their argument is that most Chinese-language material on building servers stops at copying the official sample, and that the real work is configuration, logging and error handling. The map server is the vehicle for showing that, which makes this more valuable as a reference implementation than as a dependency. If you want Gaode POI data in production, the official server is the one to use; if you want to see how a server should be structured, read this one.
A server over Gaode's mapping API, written as the worked example for a long engineering tutorial on building servers properly — structure, configuration, logging, error handling.
- Geolocation from an IP address, defaulting to the caller's own
- Nearby points of interest for a coordinate, filtered by type
A Gaode Map API key. Documentation is in Chinese, and is written as a tutorial rather than a reference.
Build from source — clone the repository and build it