GeoBank 0.5.0

A Django package for countries and cities with translations.

GeoBank

A Django package that provides models for Countries and Cities with translation support using django-modeltranslation.

Installation

1. Install the package:

   pip install GeoBank
   

2. Add geobank and modeltranslation to your INSTALLED_APPS in settings.py. Note: modeltranslation must be added before django.contrib.admin.

   INSTALLED_APPS = [
       'modeltranslation',
       'django.contrib.admin',
       # ...
       'geobank',
   ]
   

3. Configure your languages in settings.py:

   LANGUAGES = (
       ('en', 'English'),
       ('fa', 'Persian'),
       # ... other languages
   )
   

4. Run migrations:

   python manage.py makemigrations
   python manage.py migrate
   

5. Populate the database:

   python manage.py populate_geobank
   

   To run in the background (requires Celery):

   python manage.py populate_geobank --background
   

   To choose the cities population:

   python manage.py populate_geobank --population-gte {500, 1000, 5000, 15000}
   

Requirements

• Django >= 3.2
• django-modeltranslation >= 0.18.0
• Pillow >= 9.0
• Celery (optional, for background tasks)
• tqdm (for progress bars)
• requests

TODO

• Improve data gathering and population faster using async scrips
• Add more fields to models