Re: [Gramps-devel] Geonames

[Benny M. <ben...@gm...>]

I do not see a python library there, can you give direct link.

Anyway, I did not find in python a way to ask a remote website, and then
parse the returning website in order to scrape relevant data. Does anybody
know a python program that can do that?

Benny

2007/11/26, Gerald Britton <ger...@gm...>:
>
> Did you try the python library available at geonames.org?  I don't
> know, but it might perform better that way.
>
> On Nov 26, 2007 9:51 AM, Benny Malengier <ben...@gm...>
> wrote:
> > The place completion tool uses geonames data:
> >
> http://www.gramps-project.org/wiki/index.php?title=Place_completion_tool#Download_resources
> >
> > My experience two years ago with this was that the web interface was
> much to
> > slow to use interactively. That is why the resource must be downloaded.
> > That might have changed however.
> >
> > Benny
> >
> >  2007/11/26, Gerald Britton <ger...@gm...>:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > All -- I don't know if this has been highlighted before:
> > >
> > > Geonames
> > >
> > > The GeoNames geographical database is available for download free of
> > > charge under a creative commons attribution license. It contains over
> > > eight million geographical names and consists of 6.5 million unique
> > > features whereof 2.2 million populated places and 1.8 million
> > > alternate names. All features are categorized into one out of nine
> > > feature classes and further subcategorized into one out of 645 feature
> > > codes. (more statistics ...).
> > > The data is accessible free of charge through a number of webservices
> > > and a daily database export. GeoNames is already serving up to over 3
> > > million web service requests per day.
> > >
> > > GeoNames is integrating geographical data such as names of places in
> > > various languages, elevation, population and others from various
> > > sources. All lat/long coordinates are in WGS84 (World Geodetic System
> > > 1984). Users may manually edit, correct and add new names using a user
> > > friendly wiki interface.
> > >
> > > Here is a good interview with the founder, Marc Wick:
> > >
> > >
> http://www.goodgearguide.com.au/index.php/id;664453065;fp;4;fpid;792452
> > >
> > > I'm wondering if this might be a project we could use within gramps --
> > > perhaps as an adjunct to Places and Addresses (though I hope that this
> > > two converge one day soon!)
> > >
> > >
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