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.
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.
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Imports the following geonames.org data:
- Countries
- Timezones
- States & Provences
- Cities, Towns, Suburbs, Villages etc.
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Provides the following data store implementations:
- Doctrine ORM
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Install the bundle using composer:
composer require bordeux/geoname-bundle
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Add the bundle to your
AppKernel.php
// AppKernel::registerBundles() $bundles = array( // ... new Bordeux\Bundle\GeoNameBundle\BordeuxGeoNameBundle(), // ... );
Execute the migrations using the supplied migration configuration
php bin/console doctrine:schema:update --force
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)
Loads a list of all data from geonames.org
php bin/console bordeux:geoname:import --env=prod
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