Forking GeoPlanet one place type at a time.
WoePlanet is Where On Earth (AKA WOE, also AKA GeoPlanet) data, smushed up with coordinate and boundary data from Flickr Shapes, Quattroshapes and Natural Earth Data (that's fancy talk for polygons) as well as concordances and other metadata rescued from woe.spum.org before it died and went offline.
Simple Python wrapper for accessing WoePlanet/GeoPlanet placetypes in Elasticsearch.
Elasticsearch Health Warning this wrapper assumes that a) you have an Elasticsearch instance up and running and b) you've already populated ES with the place type JSON definitions.
sudo pip install -r requirements.txt .
$ python
Python 3.7.7 (default, Mar 10 2020, 15:43:33)
[Clang 11.0.0 (clang-1100.0.33.17)] on darwin
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>>> from elasticsearch import Elasticsearch
>>> from woeplanet.docs.placetypes import PlaceTypes
>>> es = Elasticsearch(['localhost:9200'])
>>> placetypes = PlaceTypes(es)
>>> name = 'LocalAdmin'
>>> pt = placetypes.by_name(name)
>>> pt
{'description': 'One of the tertiary administrative areas within a country', 'shortname': 'LocalAdmin', 'id': 10, 'name': 'Local Administrative Area'}
>>> id = 10
>>> pt = placetypes.by_id(id)
>>> pt
{'description': 'One of the tertiary administrative areas within a country', 'shortname': 'LocalAdmin', 'id': 10, 'name': 'Local Administrative Area'}
- https://github.com/woeplanet/py-woeplanet-es-bootstrap, especially
./bin/index-placetypes.py