Cities json data

[asiniy]

Where you get it?

It seems too old (I saw the population of my homeland cities).

How can I get a fresh data?

[joecorcoran]

I wrote a script to convert the MaxMind data to JSON. I should really include that script in this repo.

[asiniy]

Yep, I think it will be better to write a script which load original data from MaxMind directly: it'll help users to synch their data all time they want.

[asiniy]

Bump!

Will you write this functionality or I need to do it by myself? You can give just chunks of code in pastebin or pastie, and I write functionality for gem

[joecorcoran]

Converted my dirty data munging script into a rake task. Should work fine with the latest data from MaxMind.

rake cities:generate[~/Downloads/worldcitiespop.txt]

[asiniy]

I'm glad that this work, but can I write tests + little refactor it?

[joecorcoran]

Sure, go ahead! Just be aware that the data that MaxMind provides is not very clean, so each time a new file is released the munging code might need to change. Don't worry too much about test coverage because chances are high that it will break again anyway :)

[asiniy]

Ok. I also think to write functionality to get the last data.

[KieranP]

Bump. Maxmind provide a newer version of this data at http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geoip2/geolite2/ . Can this be used? The CSV files they provide should make parsing easier? It sadly doesn't include lat/lng data though...