Geopolitical

Geopolitical models ready to use!

With

gem "geopolitical"

I have

DB Pattern

Nation > Region > City > Hood all with:

• Names (with i18n and sanitized version)
• ISO codes and abbreviations (Nations & Regions)
• Hierarchy (Hood.first.city.region.nation.abbr # BR)
• Languages
• Geometries
• Postal codes
• Phone codes

Geopolitical

ISO 3366-1

Two letter code: BR, DE, UK, US...

ISO 3366-2

Region/Province state code: BR-SP, BR-RJ, BR-MG, US-NY, US-WA, US-CA

Geometries

Areas and points.

Phone codes

With the help of phonie, it's now easy to two way map entities and phone codes.

Postal codes

Great for address validation and form pre-population.

Outside Rails

require 'geopolitical/models'

Naming

• Nation -> Country
  • Region -> State/Province
    • City -> District/Microregion
      • Hood -> Zone/Neighbourhood

Each must be inside the former.

Populate

Use Geonames_local to populate data easily! "geonames_local"(https://github.com/fireho/geonames_local)

Links

http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/ http://www.statoids.com/ubr.html

This project rocks and uses MIT-LICENSE.