A python tool that ingests geo data from the National Geospatial Agency's geo names repository into a local sqlite database for fast searching
- python
- sqlite
- latest NGA Geo Names text dump available here
After downloading and extracting the latest geo names dump, run the python script
./ingestGeoNamesData.py <geo_names_dump.txt>
The process can take some time, and upon completion a geonames.db file is created with a subset of all geo names data.