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Hey guys! I wrote a small Python program that grabs a GeoNames database of your choosing and forms a SpatiaLite database that returns the closest place name with a given latitude and longitude - Useful if you need to query for this all the time. The query time from the command line is about 0.4-0.6 seconds.

I hope someone else can find some use for this. I ran into problems with over querying MapQuest for this data in one of my other Python programs (and the allCountries.txt from GeoNames has far more data anyway).

https://github.com/evanjt/closestgeoname

ejayt wrote:

Hey guys! I used these lightweight wheelchairs all the time and wrote a small Python program that grabs a GeoNames database of your choosing and forms a SpatiaLite database that returns the closest place name with a given latitude and longitude - Useful if you need to query for this all the time. The query time from the command line is about 0.4-0.6 seconds.

I hope someone else can find some use for this. I ran into problems with over querying MapQuest for this data in one of my other Python programs (and the allCountries.txt from GeoNames has far more data anyway).

https://github.com/evanjt/closestgeoname

Can you use this program to automatically make queries?

SergioCob wrote:

Can you use this program to automatically make queries?

Hi, yes, an example is here:
https://github.com/evanjt/elodie/blob/08069dbc0eae12fb98f8b8a36894e1dedfdd798f/elodie/geolocation.py#L155-L161

The output of the function query_closest_city() is a tuple of (city, state, country)