Geonames Bundle

Introduction

Provides access to the data exported by GeoNames.org into Symfony 2 and Symfony 3 applications.

What is geonames.org

From the geonames.org website:

The GeoNames geographical database covers all countries and contains over eight million placenames that are available for download free of charge.

When to use this bundle

Most useful application for this bundle is to normalize the geograhical information stored in your database such as Countries, States and Cities. Thanks to the extensive geonames.org data almost all cities, towns and suburbs are covered worldwide.

Features

Imports the following geonames.org data:
- Countries
- Timezones
- States & Provences
- Cities, Towns, Suburbs, Villages etc.
Provides the following data store implementations:
- Doctrine ORM

Installation

Install the bundle using composer:
```
composer require bordeux/geoname-bundle
```

Add the bundle to your AppKernel.php

// AppKernel::registerBundles()
$bundles = array(
    // ...
        new Bordeux\Bundle\GeoNameBundle\BordeuxGeoNameBundle(),
    // ...
);

Install or update database schema

Execute the migrations using the supplied migration configuration

    php bin/console doctrine:schema:update --force

Import the data

Note that importing the data from the remote geonames.org repository involves downloading almost 350 MB data from geonames.org.

The following commands can be used in sequence to load all supported data from the geonames.org export (http://download.geonames.org/export/dump)

Import data

Loads a list of all data from geonames.org

    php bin/console bordeux:geoname:import  --env=prod

Options

Usage:
  bordeux:geoname:import [options]

Options:
  -a, --archive[=ARCHIVE]                   Archive to GeoNames [default: "http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/allCount
ries.zip"]
  -t, --timezones[=TIMEZONES]               Timezones file [default: "http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/timeZones.txt
"]
  -o, --download-dir[=DOWNLOAD-DIR]         Download dir
  -h, --help                                Display this help message
  -q, --quiet                               Do not output any message
  -V, --version                             Display this application version
      --ansi                                Force ANSI output
      --no-ansi                             Disable ANSI output
  -n, --no-interaction                      Do not ask any interactive question
  -e, --env=ENV                             The environment name [default: "dev"]
      --no-debug                            Switches off debug mode
  -a1, --admin1-codes[=ADMIN1-CODES]        Admin 1 Codes file [default: "http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/admin1Cod
esASCII.txt"]
  -a2, --admin2-codes[=ADMIN2-CODES]        Admin 2 Codes file [default: "http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/admin2Cod
es.txt"]
  -lc, --languages-codes[=LANGUAGES-CODES]  Admin 2 Codes file [default: "http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/iso-langu
agecodes.txt"]
  -v|vv|vvv, --verbose                      Increase the verbosity of messages: 1 for normal output, 2 for more verbose outp
ut and 3 for debug

Help:
  Import GeoNames

crashev/geoname-bundle