kolegm / geonames-import

Download data from external source geonames.org. And load data into MySQL database.

#Import data from source geonames.org

VERSION 1.0.2
DEVELOPMENT date 2014-11-15

About geonames.org.

Process import data consist of two stages:

• downloading data from external geonames.org
• importing data into the internal MySQL database

###DOWNLOADING data

External data urls:

• all dumps
• postal codes

For downloading external data - call the next shell script with option --whole

$ bash ./shell/download.sh --whole

For running shell script with other options see descriptions. Just run without options - and see descriptions about all available options

$ bash ./shell/download.sh

###IMPORT data

For importing external data - call the next shell script with option -a import-data and database options -u username -p password

$ bash ./shell/import.sh -a import-data -u username -p password

For running shell script with other options see descriptions. Just run without options - and see descriptions about all available options

$ bash ./shell/import.sh

##Additionaly Total disk space used for downloaded data:

$ du
376M ./data/zip  
1.6G ./data/txt  
2.0G ./data  

Total disk space used for unpacked data

$ ls -lh ./data/txt
total 1.6G
 136K admin1CodesASCII.txt
 1.9M admin2Codes.txt
 1.2G allCountries.txt
 349M alternateNames.txt
  143 continents.txt
  31K countryInfo.txt
 719K dependencies.txt
  56K featureCodes_en.txt
 6.0M hierarchy.txt
 125K iso-languagecodes.txt
  76M postalCodes.txt
  14K timeZones.txt

Total disk space used for zipped data [temporary]

$ ls -lh ./data/zip
total 376M
 269M allCountries.zip
  95M alternateNames.zip
 1.3M hierarchy.zip
 178K no-country.zip
  11M postalCodes.zip