geon

Collect and filter data from geonames.org and store it in JSON

$ git clone git://github.com/molforp/geon
$ cd geon
$ npm install

Commands

• geon fetch [countries...] – download files from geonames.org

  param countries: optional (list of country codes: RU UA US, if not exists - from config.js)

  options: --alt - download alternateNames.zip, --ci - download countryInfo.txt, --c1 - download cities1000.zip, --c5 - download cities5000.zip, --c15 - download cities15000.zip

• geon alter [langs...] – filter alternateNames by language

  param langs: optional (list of languages: ru en, if not exists - from config.js)

• geon build [countries...] – build cities and regions for full countries

  param countries: optional (list of country codes: RU UA US, if not exists - from config.js, or all - build all countries)

  options: --co - build countries from countriesInfo.txt, --ci - build cities for countries from config

• geon cities [countries...] – build cities from the file cities1000.txt or cities5000.txt or cities15000.txt

  param countries: optional (list of country codes: RU UA US, if not exists - build for all countries)

• geon regions [countries...] – build regions from the file cities1000.txt or cities5000.txt or cities15000.txt

  param countries: optional (list of country codes: RU UA US, if not exists - build for all countries)

• geon fix [countries...] – add some fixes for data

  param countries: optional (list of country codes: RU UA US, if not exists - add fixes for countries from directory fixes/countries)

• geon -h – show help for geon

All raw data stores in raw_data folder and destination data stores in data folder. You can change it in config.js.

geon -h for more info.

Steps

1. geon fetch --alt --ci --c1 - download alternateNames.zip, countriesInfo.txt, cities1000.zip
2. geon alter - filter alternate names
3. geon cities and then geon regions, or just geon build - build cities and regions with translations from alternateNames
4. geon fix - add some fixes