geo-db

Streams the entire WikiData database to extract a database of cities.

Usage

Building

To build a binary, install Cargo and run cargo build --release in this repository. A binary will be available at target/release/geo-db.

Running

Also see ./geo-db -h for help.

To download the initial database of cities, run ./geo-db with no arguments. This will save it to a new database at geo.db.

Note that this database will require about 5 GB of space. Downloading will use around 4 CPU cores and take 6–8 hours on a decent internet connection.

To run subsequent post-processing, run ./geo-db post. This will take around 30 minutes and may use up to 9 GB of space.