django-cities-tiny 1.0

Another simple alternative to django-cities

django-cities-tiny -- *Simple django-cities alternative*
=========================================================

This add-on provides models and commands to import country/zone/city data into your
database.
The data is pulled from `GeoNames
<http://www.geonames.org/>`_ and contains:

- country names
- administrative division zones
- city names

Spatial query support is not required by this application.

This application is very simple and is useful if you want to make a simple
address book for example. If you intend to build a fully featured spatial
database, you should use
`django-cities
<https://github.com/coderholic/django-cities>`_.

This is a fork of django-cities-light by James Pic. The main difference of
django-cities-tiny is:

- support for localized names (from alternateNames.txt)
- support for administrative division zones (from admin1CodesASCII.txt,
admin2Codes.txt, or from XX.txt)
- required Django 1.0+, Python 2.3+ and no other dependences

Installation
------------

Install django-cities-tiny::

easy_install django-cities-tiny

Add `cities_tiny` to your `INSTALLED_APPS`.

Now, run syncdb, it will create all required tables for models::

./manage.py syncdb

Data update
-----------

Finnaly, populate your database with command::

./manage.py citiestinyrefresh

This command is well documented, consult the help with::

./manage.py help citiestinyrefresh

Limiting data to import
---------------------

If you want to import only cities from France, USA and Belgium you could do as
such in your settings.py::

CITIES_TINY_COUNTRIES = ('FR', 'US', 'BE')

Configure logging
-----------------

To get output from citiestinyrefresh command simply pass the -v2 or or
--verbosity=2 option. Also if you use Django 1.3+, you may configure logging
system in your settings.py, simply configure a handler and formatter for
`cities_tiny` logger. For example::

LOGGING = {
'version': 1,
'disable_existing_loggers': False,
'formatters': {
'simple': {
'format': '%(levelname)s %(message)s'
},
},
'handlers': {
'console':{
'level':'DEBUG',
'class':'logging.StreamHandler',
'formatter': 'simple'
},
},
'loggers': {
'cities_tiny': {
'handlers':['console'],
'propagate': True,
'level':'DEBUG',
},
# also use this one to see SQL queries
'django': {
'handlers':['console'],
'propagate': True,
'level':'DEBUG',
},
}
}