Geonames data for continents, cities and US states.
Project description
A Python library that provides functions to retrieve names and codes of continents, countries and US states as Python dictionaries.
Geonames data is obtained from GeoNames.
Installation
To install geonamescache, run:
$ sudo pip install geonamescache
Or, if necessary:
$ sudo easy_install geonamescache
Usage
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...
Methods
Currently geonamescache provides the following methods, that all return dictionaries with the requested data:
get_continents()
get_countries()
get_us_states()
Contributing
Fork the repository on GitHub
Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
Commit your changes (git commit -am ‘Added some feature’)
Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
Create new Pull Request
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