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MartinsOnuoha / countriesNowAPI

CountriesNow is an Open source API for retrieving geo-information for countries, including their states, cities, population, etc. 🌎

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Would it be possible to add a "top 5 cities" or filtering by population? #9

Closed alexgarciab closed 4 years ago

alexgarciab commented 4 years ago

Would it be possible to add a top 5 cities (per country) endpoint to be able to retrieve the most populated cities? Or even better, add a filter to get only the cities with more than X number of people. Thanks

MartinsOnuoha commented 4 years ago

@alexgarciab Alright, let's have this as an open issue, our likely options would be to carry out a data collection, or use a realtime API, because of the volatile nature of those figures.

if we collected the data, we might soon enough have out of date figures and would have to update them manually. Using a 3rd party API would be our best bet.

alexgarciab commented 4 years ago

This one is a good one: https://public.opendatasoft.com/explore/dataset/geonames-all-cities-with-a-population-1000/table/?disjunctive.country - We are going to use it

MartinsOnuoha commented 4 years ago

Hey @alexgarciab I resolved to use the datahub API. https://datahub.io/core/population, I'll make a PR later today.

alexgarciab commented 4 years ago

Did you manage to get population per city or just per country?

MartinsOnuoha commented 4 years ago

I did get for cities as well. The response data just requires cleaning up and simplifying

MartinsOnuoha commented 4 years ago

What do you suggest are important details so I know what to keep in the response

alexgarciab commented 4 years ago

For me, being able to get the top 5 cities by population, per country, would be enough.

MartinsOnuoha commented 4 years ago

@alexgarciab a PR has been created for this issue, feel free to have a look.