Geonames

Golang parsing library for the geonames.org database dump.

Features

• Parse data directly without downloading and unzipping
• Read line by line with low memory consumption

Implemented data

status	archive	comment
✅	xx.zip	GetGeonames; See readme
✅	admin1CodesASCII.txt	GetAdminDivisions
✅	admin2Codes.txt	GetAdminSubdivisions
✅	adminCode5.zip	GetAdminCodes5
✅	allCountries.zip	GetGeonames
⚠️	alternateNames.zip	depricated, use alternateNamesV2.zip instead
✅	alternateNamesDeletes-xxxx-xx-xx.txt	GetAlternateNameDeletes
✅	alternateNamesModifications-xxxx-xx-xx.txt	GetAlternateNameModifications
✅	alternateNamesV2.zip	GetAlternateNames
✅	alternatenames/xx.zip	GetAlternateNames; See readme
✅	cities1000.zip	GetGeonames
✅	cities15000.zip	GetGeonames
✅	cities500.zip	GetGeonames
✅	cities5000.zip	GetGeonames
✅	countryInfo.txt	GetCountries
✅	deletes-xxxx-xx-xx.txt	GetDeletes
✅	featureCodes_bg.txt	GetFeatureCodes
✅	featureCodes_en.txt	GetFeatureCodes
✅	featureCodes_nb.txt	GetFeatureCodes
✅	featureCodes_nn.txt	GetFeatureCodes
✅	featureCodes_no.txt	GetFeatureCodes
✅	featureCodes_ru.txt	GetFeatureCodes
✅	featureCodes_sv.txt	GetFeatureCodes
✅	hierarchy.zip	GetHierarchy
✅	iso-languagecodes.txt	GetLanguages
✅	modifications-xxxx-xx-xx.txt	GetModifications
✅	no-country.zip	GetGeonames
✅	shapes_all_low.zip	GetShapes
⚠️	shapes_simplified_low.json.zip	I don't see the point in geojson parsing
✅	timeZones.txt	GetTimeZones
✅	userTags.zip	GetUserTags

Installation

$ go get github.com/mkrou/geonames

Quick start

Parsing cities

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "github.com/mkrou/geonames"
    "github.com/mkrou/geonames/models"
    "log"
)

func main() {
    p := geonames.NewParser()
    
    //print all cities with a population greater than 5000
    err := p.GetGeonames(geonames.Cities5000, func(geoname *models.Geoname) error {
    fmt.Println(geoname.Name)
        return nil
    })
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }
}

Parsing alternames

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "github.com/mkrou/geonames"
    "github.com/mkrou/geonames/models"
    "log"
)
func main() {
    p := geonames.NewParser()
    
    err := p.GetAlternateNames(geonames.AlternateNames, func(geoname *models.AlternateName) error {
        fmt.Println(geoname.Name)
        return nil
    })
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }
}

Parsing alphabetical list of archives

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "github.com/mkrou/geonames"
    "github.com/mkrou/geonames/models"
    "log"
)
func main() {
    p := geonames.NewParser()
    
    err := p.GetGeonames("AD.zip", func(geoname *models.Geoname) error {
        fmt.Println(geoname.Name)
        return nil
    })
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }
    
    err = p.GetAlternateNames("alternames/AD.zip", func(geoname *models.AlternateName) error {
        fmt.Println(geoname.Name)
        return nil
    })
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }
}