egeonames

erlang wrapper around geonames data set

download the files you want (XX.txt, where XX is the country code), and put them in egeonames/priv/data.

cd egeonames
CC=DK
wget http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/$CC.zip
unzip $CC.zip
mv $CC.txt priv/data/
rm $CC.zip readme.txt

(re)start egeonames

egeonames:start().

lookup like this;

egeonames:lookup(string(NameOfPopulatedPlace)[,string(CountryCode)])

Examples;

1> egeonames:lookup("Vallberga","SE").
[[{2665537,<<"Vallberga">>,<<"SE">>,56.46667,13.01667}]]

2> egeonames:lookup("Vallberga").
[[{2665537,<<"Vallberga">>,<<"SE">>,56.46667,13.01667}]]

3> egeonames:lookup("Kobenhavn").
[[{2618425,<<"Copenhagen">>,<<"DK">>,55.67594,12.56553}]]

4> egeonames:lookup("Abild").
[[{2625066,<<"Abild">>,<<"DK">>,54.96667,8.86667}],
 [{2727665,<<"Abild">>,<<"SE">>,56.93333,12.71667}]]