Geoname data (PHP)

This package provides a simple way to download Geonames data and format it for friendly use. (https://www.geonames.org/)

Requirements

PHP ^8.1
ext-curl
ext-json
ext-zip

Setup

You can install the package via Composer:

composer require farzai/geonames

Example

use Farzai\Geonames\Client;

// Create a new client
$client = new Client();

// Get all countries and return $resource
$resource = $client->getCountryInfo(); // \Farzai\Geonames\Resource\CollectionResource

// Now, you can access the data using the following methods:
$countries = $resource->asArray(); // Array
$json = $resource->asJson(); // String

// Or acccess data as entity
foreach ($resource->all() as $country) {
    /** @var \Farzai\Geonames\Entities\CountryEntity $country */
    echo $country->name;
}

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Available methods

Get all countries

// GET: https://download.geonames.org/export/dump/countryInfo.txt
$resource = $client->getCountryInfo();

// $entity instanceof \Farzai\Geonames\Entities\CountryEntity
foreach ($resource->all() as $entity) {
    echo $entity->iso;
    // ...
}

Property	Type	Description	Example	Required
iso	string	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2	TH	Yes
iso3	string	ISO 3166-1 alpha-3	THA	Yes
iso_numeric	string	ISO 3166-1 numeric	764	Yes
fips	string	FIPS 10-4	TH	No
name	string	Country name	Thailand	Yes
capital	string	Capital	Bangkok	No
area	float	Area in km²	514000.0	No
population	int	Population	67089500	No
continent	string	Continent code	AS	No
tld	string	Top level domain	.th	No
currency_code	string	Currency code	THB	No
currency_name	string	Currency name	Baht	No
phone	string	Phone calling code	66	No
postal_code_format	string	Postal code format	5 digits	No
postal_code_regex	string	Postal code regex	^[1-9]\d{4}$	No
languages	string	Languages (comma separated)	th,en,ar-AE,km,la	No
geoname_id	string	Geoname ID	1605651	No
neighbours	string	Neighbours (comma separated)	LA,MM,KH,MY	No
equivalent_fips_code	string	Equivalent FIPS code	TH	No

Get languages

// GET: https://download.geonames.org/export/dump/iso-languagecodes.txt
$resource = $client->getLanguages();

// $entity instanceof \Farzai\Geonames\Entities\LanguageEntity
foreach ($resource->all() as $entity) {
    // ...
}

Property	Type	Description	Example	Required
iso_639_3	string	ISO 639-3 code	tha	Yes
iso_639_2	string	ISO 639-2 code	tha	Yes
iso_639_1	string	ISO 639-1 code	th	Yes
language_name	string	Language name	Thai	Yes

Geonames available resources

// GET: https://download.geonames.org/export/dump
$resource = $client->getGeonamesAvailable();

/** @var string[] $countryCodes */
$countryCodes = $resource->all();

Geonames by country code

// GET: https://download.geonames.org/export/dump/{countryCode}.zip
$resource = $client->getGeonamesByCountryCode('TH');

// $entity instanceof \Farzai\Geonames\Entities\GeonameEntity
foreach ($resource->all() as $entity) {
    // ...
}

Property	Type	Description	Example	Required
id	string	Geoname ID	1605651	Yes
name	string	Name of geographical point (utf8)	Ban Khlong Nung	Yes
asciiname	string	Name of geographical point in plain ascii characters	Ban Khlong Nung	Yes
alternatenames	string	Alternatenames, comma separated	Ban Khlong Nung,Ban Khlong Nung,Ban Khlong Nung	Yes
latitude	float	Latitude in decimal degrees (wgs84)	13.75	Yes
longitude	float	Longitude in decimal degrees (wgs84)	100.46667	Yes
feature_class	string	See http://www.geonames.org/export/codes.html	P	Yes
feature_code	string	See http://www.geonames.org/export/codes.html	PPL	Yes
country_code	string	ISO-3166 2-letter country code, 2 characters	TH	Yes
cc2	string	Alternate country codes, comma separated, ISO-3166 2-letter country code, 60 characters	TH	No
admin1_code	string	Fipscode (subject to change to iso code), see exceptions below, see file admin1Codes.txt for display names of this code; varchar(20)	40	No
admin2_code	string	Code for the second administrative division, a county in the US, see file admin2Codes.txt; varchar(80)	40	No
admin3_code	string	Code for third level administrative division, varchar(20)	40	No
admin4_code	string	Code for fourth level administrative division, varchar(20)	40	No
population	int	Bigint (8 byte int)	0	No
elevation	int	In meters	0	No
dem	int	Digital elevation model, srtm3 or gtopo30, average elevation of 3''x3'' (ca 90mx90m) or 30''x30'' (ca 900mx900m) area in meters, integer. srtm processed by cgiar/ciat.	0	No
timezone	string	The iana timezone id (see file timeZone.txt) varchar(40)	Asia/Bangkok	No
modification_date	string	Date of last modification in yyyy-MM-dd format	2011-03-03	No

Alternate names available resources

// GET: https://download.geonames.org/export/dump/alternatenames
$resource = $client->getAlternateNamesAvailable();

/** @var string[] $countryCodes */
$countryCodes = $resource->all();

Alternate names by country code

// GET: https://download.geonames.org/export/dump/alternatenames/{countryCode}.zip
$resource = $client->getAlternateNamesByCountryCode('TH');

// $entity instanceof \Farzai\Geonames\Entities\AlternateNameEntity
foreach ($resource->all() as $entity) {
    //
}

Property	Type	Description	Example	Required
id	string	the id of this alternate name	1	Yes
geoname_id	string	geonameId referring to id in table 'geoname'	3041563	Yes
iso_language	string	iso 639 language code 2- or 3-characters; 4-characters 'post' for postal codes and 'iata','icao' and faac for airport codes, fr_1793 for French Revolution names, abbr for abbreviation, link to a website (mostly to wikipedia), wkdt for the wikidataid	en	Yes
name	string	alternate name or name variant	Ban Khlong Nung	Yes
is_preferred_name	bool	true, if this alternate name is an official/preferred name	true	Yes
is_short_name	bool	true, if this is a short name like 'California' for 'State of California'	true	Yes
is_colloquial	bool	true, if this alternate name is a colloquial or slang term. Example: 'Big Apple' for 'New York'.	true	Yes
is_historic	bool	true, if this alternate name is historic and was used in the past.	true	Yes
from	string	from period when the name was used	2011-03-03	No
to	string	to period when the name was used	2011-03-03	No

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.