A Python library that provides functions to retrieve names, ISO and FIPS codes of continents, countries as well as US states and counties as Python dictionaries. The country and city datasets also include population and geographic data.
Geonames data is obtained from GeoNames.
pip install geonamescache
A simple usage example:
import geonamescache
gc = geonamescache.GeonamesCache()
countries = gc.get_countries()
# print countries dictionary
print(countries)
# you really wanna do something more useful with the data...
When creating a GeonamesCache you can set the min_city_population parameter to either of 500, 1000, 5000 or the default 15000. The smaller the minimum popluation the more cities are included in the cities dataset.
New in version 1.4
Currently geonamescache provides the following methods, that return dictionaries with the requested data:
- get_continents()
- get_countries()
- get_us_states()
- get_cities()
- get_countries_by_names()
- get_us_states_by_names()
- get_cities_by_name(name)
- get_us_counties()
In addition you can search for cities by name.
- search_cities('NAME', case_sensitive=True, contains_search=True)
This function returns a list of city records that match the given NAME.
- By default the
alternatenamesattribute is searched for matches. - By default the search is case sensitive, it can be made case insensitive by changing
case_sensitiveto False. - By default the search is contains, it can be made exact equality by changing
contains_searchto False.
The mappers module provides function(s) to map data properties. Currently you can create a mapper that maps country properties, e. g. the name property to the iso3 property, to do so you'd write the following code:
from geonamescache.mappers import country
mapper = country(from_key='name', to_key='iso3')
iso3 = mapper('Spain') # iso3 is assigned ESP
Please write test(s) for any new feature. If you wish to build the data from scratch, run make dl and make json.