This project provides tools to play with geographical data. It also works with non-geographical data, except for map visualizations :).
There are embedded data sources in the project, but you can easily play with your own data in addition to the available ones. After data loading, you can:
- perform various types of queries (find this key, or find keys with this property)
- make fuzzy searches based on string distance (find things roughly named like this)
- make phonetic searches (find things sounding like this)
- make geographical searches (find things next to this place)
- get results on a map, or export it as csv data, or as a Python object
This is entirely written in Python. The core part is a Python package, but there is a command line tool as well! Get it with easy_install, then you can see where are airports with international in their name:
$ GeoBase --fuzzy international --map
You can perform all types of queries:
$ GeoBase --base cities --fuzzy "san francisko" # typo here :)
And of course, you can use your own data:
$ cat data.csv | GeoBase --near London
We are currently gathering input from the community to define the next version features, so do not hesitate to open issues on the github page.
These prerequisites are very standard packages which are often installed by default on Linux distributions. But make sure you have them anyway.
First you need to install setuptools (as root):
$ apt-get install python-setuptools # for debian
$ yum install python-setuptools.noarch # for fedora
Then you need some basics compilation stuff to compile dependencies (also as root):
$ apt-get install python-dev g++ # for debian
$ yum install python-devel gcc-c++ # for fedora
You can install it from PyPI with:
$ easy_install --user -U GeoBases
If you want the development version, clone the project from github:
$ git clone https://github.com/opentraveldata/geobases.git
Then install the package and its dependencies:
$ cd geobases
$ python setup.py install --user # for user space
A standalone script is put in ~/.local/bin
, to benefit from it, put
that in your ~/.bashrc
or ~/.zshrc
:
export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin
export BACKGROUND_COLOR=black # or 'white', your call
There is Python 3 and Pypy (not so) experimental support, you can try it by changing branch before installation.
For Python 3, you have to install setuptools and python3-dev as prerequisites, then:
$ git checkout 3000
$ python3 setup.py install --user
You can also install the package for Python 3:
$ easy_install-3.2 --user -U GeoBases3K
For Pypy, after pypy and pypy-dev installation:
$ git checkout pypy
$ sudo pypy setup.py install
If you use zsh and want to benefit from the autocomplete, add this to
your ~/.zshrc
:
# Add custom completion scripts
fpath=(~/.zsh/completion $fpath)
autoload -U compinit
compinit
Run the tests with:
$ python test/test_GeoBases.py -v
>>> from GeoBases import GeoBase
>>> geo_o = GeoBase(data='ori_por', verbose=False)
>>> geo_a = GeoBase(data='airports', verbose=False)
>>> geo_t = GeoBase(data='stations', verbose=False)
You can provide other values for the data parameter. All data sources are documented in a single yaml file:
- data="ori_por" will load a local version of this file, this is the most complete source for airports, use it!
- data="ori_por_multi" is the same as previous, but the key for a line is not the iata_code, but the concatenation of iata_code and location_type. This feature makes every line unique, whereas ori_por can have several lines for one iata_code
- data="airports" will use geonames as data source for airports
- data="stations" will use RFF data, from the open data website, as data source for french train stations
- data="stations_nls" will use NLS nomenclature as data source for french train stations
- data="stations_uic" will use UIC nomenclature as data source for french train stations
- data="countries" will load data on countries
- data="capitals" will load data on countries capitals
- data="continents" will load data on continents
- data="timezones" will load data on timezones
- data="languages" will load data on languages
- data="cities" will load data on cities, extracted from geonames
- data="currencies" will load data on currencies, extracted from wikipedia
- data="airlines" will load data on airlines, extracted from that file
- data="cabins" will load data on cabins
- data="locales" will load data on locales
- data="location_types" will load data on location types
- data="feature_classes" will load data on feature classes
- data="feature_codes" will load data on feature codes
- data="ori_por_non_iata" will load some non-iata data excluded from ori_por
- data="geonames_MC" will load MC data of geonames
- data="geonames_FR" will load FR data of geonames
- data="postal_codes_MC" will load MC postal codes data
- data="postal_codes_FR" will load FR postal codes data
- data="feed" will create an empty instance
All features are unaware of the underlying data, and are available as long as
the headers are properly set in the configuration file, or from the Python API.
For geographical features, you have to name the latitude field lat
, and the
longitude field lng
.
>>> geo_o.get('CDG', 'city_code')
'PAR'
>>> geo_o.get('BRU', 'name')
'Bruxelles National'
>>> geo_t.get('frnic', 'name')
'Nice-Ville'
>>> geo_t.get('fr_not_exist', 'name', default='NAME')
'NAME'
You can put your own data in a GeoBase
class, either by loading
your own file when creating the instance, or by creating an empty instance
and using the set
method.
>>> conditions = [('city_code', 'PAR'), ('location_type', 'H')]
>>> list(geo_o.getKeysWhere(conditions, mode='and'))
[(2, 'JDP'), (2, 'JPU')]
>>>
>>> conditions = [('city_code', 'PAR'), ('city_code', 'LON')]
>>> len(list(geo_o.getKeysWhere(conditions, mode='or')))
36
>>> geo_o.distance('CDG', 'NCE')
694.5162...
>>> # Paris, airports <= 40km
>>> [k for _, k in sorted(geo_a.findNearPoint((48.84, 2.367), 40))]
['ORY', 'LBG', 'TNF', 'CDG']
>>>
>>> # Nice, stations <= 4km
>>> iterable = geo_t.findNearPoint((43.70, 7.26), 4)
>>> [geo_t.get(k, 'name') for _, k in iterable]
['Nice-Ville', 'Nice-St-Roch', 'Nice-Riquier']
>>> sorted(geo_a.findNearKey('ORY', 50)) # Orly, airports <= 50km
[(0.0, 'ORY'), (18.8..., 'TNF'), (27.8..., 'LBG'), (34.8..., 'CDG')]
>>>
>>> sorted(geo_t.findNearKey('frnic', 3)) # Nice station, <= 3km
[(0.0, 'frnic'), (2.2..., 'fr4342'), (2.3..., 'fr5737')]
>>> list(geo_a.findClosestFromPoint((43.70, 7.26))) # Nice
[(5.82..., 'NCE')]
>>>
>>> list(geo_a.findClosestFromPoint((43.70, 7.26), N=3)) # Nice
[(5.82..., 'NCE'), (30.28..., 'CEQ'), (79.71..., 'ALL')]
>>> geo_t.fuzzyGet('Marseille Charles', 'name')[0]
(0.8..., 'frmsc')
>>> geo_a.fuzzyGet('paris de gaulle', 'name')[0]
(0.78..., 'CDG')
>>> geo_t.visualize()
* Added lines for duplicates linking, total 0
> Affecting category None to color blue | volume 3190
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* Now you may use your browser to visualize:
example_map.html example_table.html
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* If you want to clean the temporary files:
rm example.json ...
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(['example_map.html', 'example_table.html'], 2)
Here is the API documentation for the Python package. Check out the wiki for any question!
Installation of the package will also deploy a standalone script named GeoBase
:
$ GeoBase ORY CDG # query on the keys ORY and CDG
$ GeoBase --closest CDG # closest from CDG
$ GeoBase --near LIG # near LIG
$ GeoBase --fuzzy marseille # fuzzy search on 'marseille'
$ GeoBase --help # your best friend
In the previous picture, you have an overview of the command line verbose display. Three displays are available for the command line tool:
- the verbose display
- the csv display with
--quiet
- the map display with
--map
With the verbose display, entries are displayed on each column,
and the available fields on each line. Fields starting with __
like __field__
are
special. This means they were added during data loading:
__key__
is the field containing the id of the entry. Ids are defined with a list of fields in the configuration file.__dup__
is the field containing a list of duplicated keys. Indeed there is mechanism handling duplicated keys by default, which creates new keys if the key already exists in theGeoBase
.__par__
is the field containing the parent key if the key is duplicated.__lno__
is the field containing the line number during loading.__gar__
is the field containing the data which was not loaded on the line (this can be because the line was not well formatted, or because there were missing headers).
More examples here, for example how to do a search on a field, like admin_code (B8
is french riviera):
$ GeoBase -E adm1_code -e B8
Same with csv output (customized with --show
):
$ GeoBase -E adm1_code -e B8 --quiet --show __ref__ iata_code name
Add a fuzzy search:
$ GeoBase -E adm1_code -e B8 --fuzzy sur mer
All heliports under 200 km from Paris:
$ GeoBase --near PAR -N 200 -E location_type -e 'H'
50 train stations closest to a specific geocode:
$ GeoBase -E location_type -e R --closest '48.853, 2.348' -C 50
Countries with non-empty postal code regex:
$ GeoBase -b countries -E postal_code_regex -e '' --reverse --quiet
Reading data input on stdin:
$ echo -e 'ORY^Orly\nCDG^Charles' | GeoBase
Display on map:
$ GeoBase -b stations --map
Marker-less map for a specific GMT offset:
$ GeoBase -E gmt_offset -e 1.0 --map -M _ _ country_code __none__
The MANIFEST.in
file is used to determine which files will be
included in a source distribution.
package_data
directive in setup.py
file is about which file will
be exported in site-package after installation.
So you really need both if you want to produce installable packages like
rpms or zip which can be installed afterwards.
You will also find a Rakefile at the
root of the project. This can be used to build and deploy the packages.
Deployment can be done using webdav, and the Rakefile expects nd
to be
installed (this is a webdav client).
To install nd
, fetch the sources and compile them.
Virtualenv still has some bugs on 64 bits systems, if you are using such a system, you absolutely need to upgrade to the very last unreleased version of virtualenv, before executing rake:
$ pip uninstall virtualenv
$ pip install https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/tarball/develop