Offline geographical directory (gazetteer) implemented as Java lib. Based on Geonames data.
The idea is to convert all the ambiguous addresses to the <city>,[state,]<country> format. A few examples of address resolving:
| Ambiguous address | Address in proper format | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz | Santa Cruz, CA, USA | not the Santa Cruz in Spain/Chile/Bolivia |
| Paris | Paris, France | not Paris in Texas |
| NYC | New York City, NY, USA | |
| FL | FL, USA | |
| Odessa | Odessa, Ukraine | not Odessa in Texas |
| Odessa, USA | Odessa, TX, USA |
wget http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/cities15000.zip
wget http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/allCountries.zip
unzip cities15000.zip
unzip allCountries.zip