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.
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 --saveUsage
const cities = require('all-the-cities');
cities.filter(city => city.name.match('Albuquerque'));
/*
[{
cityId: '5454711',
name: 'Albuquerque',
country: 'US',
altCountry: '',
muni: '',
muniSub: '',
featureClass: 'P',
featureCode: 'PPLA2',
adminCode: 'NM',
population: 545852,
loc: {
type: 'Point',
coordinates: [-106.65114, 35.084]
}
}, {
cityId: '5476960',
name: 'Los Ranchos de Albuquerque',
country: 'US',
altCountry: '',
muni: '',
muniSub: '',
featureClass: 'P',
featureCode: 'PPL',
adminCode: 'NM',
population: 6024,
loc: {
type: 'Point',
coordinates: [-106.6428, 35.16199]
}
}]
*/Fields available to import
id - Id of the city (same in openWeatherMap)
name
altName
country
featureCode
adminCode
population
loc: { type: 'Point', coordinates: [0, 0] }
for **GEO JSON data**, a particular format is needed in MongoDB Schema as written in loc field aboveTests
npm install
npm testDependencies
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