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.

1npm install all-the-cities-mongodb --save

Usage

1const cities = require("all-the-cities-mongodb")
2
3cities.filter(city => {
4  return city.name.match('Albuquerque')
5})
6
7// [{
8//   name: 'Albuquerque',
9//   country: 'US',
10//   altCountry: '',
11//   muni: '',
12//   muniSub: '',
13//   featureClass: 'P',
14//   featureCode: 'PPLA2',
15//   adminCode: 'NM',
16//   population: 545852,
17//   lat: 35.08449,
18//   lon: -106.65114
19// }, {
20//   name: 'Los Ranchos de Albuquerque',
21//   country: 'US',
22//   altCountry: '',
23//   muni: '',
24//   muniSub: '',
25//   featureClass: 'P',
26//   featureCode: 'PPL',
27//   adminCode: 'NM',
28//   population: 6024,
29//   lat: 35.16199,
30//   lon: -106.6428
31// }]
32

Fields available to import

1
2id - Id of the city (same in openWeatherMap)
3name
4altName
5country
6featureCode
7adminCode
8population
9loc: { type: 'Point', coordinates: [0, 0] }
10
11for **GEO JSON data**, a particular format is needed in MongoDB Schema as written in loc field above
12

Tests

1npm install
2npm 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