lutangar / cities.json

:cityscape: Cities of the world in Json, based on GeoNames Gazetteer

Recent works

For the past years, I worked on open-source projects.

See my linked.in for formal work experiences.

🏙️ Erasme, open innovation lab, Lyon metrepolitan area

• https://github.com/datatlas-erasme/datatlas
• https://github.com/interpretable/interpretable

PeerTube

I enjoy crafting PeerTube plugins and contributing to PeerTube core, while working for the French Ministry of Education which is deploying a lot of open-source software via their platform apps.education.fr.

api.video

I appreciate collaborating with the people @apivideo an international startup based in Bordeaux. 🍷

I met them by posting and fixing a few issues on their nodejs client legacy nodejs client. But was then hired to maintain it and to help automate the deployment of their generated API Clients via a ton's of Github actions

DisMoi

We worked hard @dis-moi and gave birth to 🇫🇷 LeMêmeEnLocal a web extension focused on proposing locally sourced alternatives as you browse. And the original more generalist and international https://www.dismoi.io/.

Would have love to decentralize this piece of software.

Processes

• Testing
• Documenting Document all the things !!!
• 📋 Kanban nothing better than a tidy board
• Peer Review (who doesn't love to have people reading their hard work?)
• DDD still a work in progress

Technologies

• git granted sufficient permissions, anyone would be tempted to rewrite history
• Typescript/Javascript/NodeJS React, Storybook, RxJs, Next.js, Jest, Nx, NestJs, etc.
• PHP and Symfony I'll always <3 u
• Docker
• Ansible

I'm also curious about functional programming languages like Elm, Elixir, ReasonML, etc. and eager to dig deeper into Rust & Wasm one day.

Interests

• Open softwares, 🌱 seeds, low techs and 🚜 machines
• Collaborative, autonomous, decentralized and human organizations in general
  • SCOP, SCIC, association, and how they actually work (or don't)
  • Third places ( 🇫🇷 tiers-lieux)
• 🧑‍🌾 agro-ecology, agroforestry 🌳🌾🐝 but also urban/guerrilla gardening
• Decentralized softwares, social medias, energy, values, etc.
• 🍽️ Food
  • Spices - which I grow
  • 🍺 Craft beers - which I (mostly) drink
• 🎸 music

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I sometimes dream about a (somewhat too nerdy and way too technocratic) git driven organization...
...and then recall we're just humans, and it'd probably end up in CyberPunk nightmare.

I do use some proprietary softwares. Some of which I sometimes recommend given the right context.
...but I still have some addictions to some other SAAS which I badly need to cure. 🤒

Time is of the essence!

cities.json's Issues

Publish to npm? :)

First of all I want to give you a BIG thank you for this amazing work.

I was wondering, though, If it would be possible to publish this package to npm? So we can use it on server-side applications. I don't know if that would be the best strategy but I these main strenghts:

• One could easily update one's service by upgrading the package version
• Server-side we would not have to contact any remote database thus reducing the latency issues

I think about the npm package countries-list, that is hosted in Github on https://github.com/annexare/Countries

I don't know if there would be any performance issues given the size of the generated file, but I would like to open the discussion to know what you think about.

Node cannot find cities1000.txt

When I execute convert.js I get this error:

 jakob  F:  Programming projects  Weather-App  src  lib  city-data  master  node ./convert.js             
node:events:492
      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
      ^

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'F:\Programming projects\Weather-App\src\lib\city-data\cities1000.txt'
Emitted 'error' event on Interface instance at:
    at ReadStream.onerror (node:internal/readline/interface:239:10)
    at ReadStream.emit (node:events:514:28)
    at emitErrorNT (node:internal/streams/destroy:151:8)
    at emitErrorCloseNT (node:internal/streams/destroy:116:3)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:82:21) {
  errno: -4058,
  code: 'ENOENT',
  syscall: 'open',
  path: 'F:\\Programming projects\\Weather-App\\src\\lib\\city-data\\cities1000.txt'
}

Missing cities

Where did you get this data?
Unfortunately it's missing cities, like mine: Guaratinguetá (state: São Paulo, country: BR)

Add state/region to differentiate cities with similar names

Currently there is no way to differentiate cities with the same name if they belong to the same country besides the lat-lon. Perhaps, since this is in json format, add the state/region to cities with similar names? This way there is no need to add the state/region to all cities.

Escape forward slashes

cities.json inclues a lot of string values that have unescaped forward slashes ('/').

According to https://www.json.org/json-en.html , these are the characters than must be escaped; and forward slash ('/') is among them.

Chars to be escaped:
'"'
''
'/'
'b'
'f'
'n'
'r'
't'
'u' hex hex hex hex

A quick search and replace solves the issue but not doing it cause unexpected results.

Where are London, Paris, Berlin etc.?

Even the city suggested in the readme is missing.. (Lyon)