all-the-cities
All the 138,398 cities of the world with a population of at least 1000 inhabitants, in a big JSON array that is ready to be imported in MongoDB for geoSpatialSearch
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Derived from the cities-with-1000 npm package, which in turn came from geonames.org data.
Installation
Download node at nodejs.org and install it, if you haven't already.
npm install all-the-cities-mongodb --save
Usage
const cities = cities // [{// name: 'Albuquerque',// country: 'US',// altCountry: '',// muni: '',// muniSub: '',// featureClass: 'P',// featureCode: 'PPLA2',// adminCode: 'NM',// population: 545852,// lat: 35.08449,// lon: -106.65114// }, {// name: 'Los Ranchos de Albuquerque',// country: 'US',// altCountry: '',// muni: '',// muniSub: '',// featureClass: 'P',// featureCode: 'PPL',// adminCode: 'NM',// population: 6024,// lat: 35.16199,// lon: -106.6428// }]
Fields available to import
id - Id of the namealtNamecountryfeatureCodeadminCodepopulationloc: type: 'Point' coordinates: 0 0 for **GEO JSON data** a particular format is needed in MongoDB Schema as written in loc field above
Tests
npm installnpm test
Dependencies
None
Dev Dependencies
- cities-with-1000: lat/lon, names of cities with over 1000 people
- tape: tap-producing test harness for node and browsers
- split2: split a Text Stream into a Line Stream, using Stream 3
- through2: A tiny wrapper around Node streams2 Transform to avoid explicit subclassing noise
License
MIT