Cities is a simple tool for searching cities located at a given longitude and latitude range or a given region(country, state, province). All the cities returned are sorted by the importance of a city and the population density.
pip install Cities
- fast(less than 0.01s for each retrieving), simple and convenient.
- cover all the cities around the world.
- the author is cute.
Download the city data and put it at any directory you want. Remember to set the path up when you initiate an instance.
from Cities import cities_retriever
cr = cities_retriever.CitiesRetrieverByRect("Sources/dict_all_cities_rect2cities.json")
cities = cr.retrieve_cities(lon_start=-124.71, lon_end=-77.21, lat_start=25.24, lat_end=44.75, num=500) # num is optional, default: 999999
print(cities)
print(len(cities))
cr = cities_retriever.CitiesRetrieverByRegionName("Sources/dict_all_cities_region2cities.json")
cities = cr.retrieve_cities(country="United States", region="Washington", num=500) # region and num are optional
print(cities)
print(len(cities))the bigger the dict file is, the longer the loading time is.
- dict_all_cities_region2cities.json
- dict_all_cities_rect2cities.json
- dict_cities_8000_region2cities.json
- dict_cities_8000_rect2cities.json