This is a Flask mini-app to play with geolocation data and to learn more about web dev in Python. All city data comes from GeoNames dump data. To run, type in the app directory:
python app.py- Available routes:
- /cities: Shows all cities loaded from the database.
- /countries Shows all countries loaded from the database.
- /nearest.json Shows nearest cities to a latitude/longitude pair, in JSON format.
- index Shows a map with the nearest cities, given latitude and longitude parameters.
- Required parameters: latitude, longitude: I hope they’re self-explanatory :)
- Optional parameters:
- sort Accepts a value of ‘nearest’ (default) or ‘population’. Sorts the cities by “nearness” or population size.
- size Size of the bounding box used to search nearest cities.
- num Maximum number of cities retrieved.