molybdenum-99/reality

City concept

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zverok commented

Test cases:

Reality.city('Dallas') # => should be Reality::City
Reality.city('Nothing') # => should be nil
Reality.city('New York') # => what should it be? In wikipedia, "New York" is state, and "New York City" is a city...
Reality.city('Odessa') # => city in Ukraine, but how to extract all other Odessas? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odessa_(disambiguation)

The requirements are the roughly same as for country (#1), plus city.country should return Country object, of course.

zverok commented

In fact, there's one cozy template Infobox settlement for all human settlements. So, potential usage is wider than "only city".

NB: some countries cities have subclasses of forementioned template ("Infobox German location", "Infobox Greek Dimos" and so on). It will be not so easy, as my first guess.

zverok commented

Most obvious fields:

  • name (or names)
  • country
  • area
  • population
  • leaders
  • elevation
  • time zone
zverok commented

Something is pushed. #country is awfully incomplete. Next target:

  • geography (lat/lng)
zverok commented

Some naive Geo::Coord implementation added.