Find good cities database

hebcal / hebcal-js

⛔️ DEPRECATED - a perpetual Jewish Calendar (JavaScript)

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Find good cities database #1

Open Scimonster opened 10 years ago

Scimonster commented 10 years ago

Requirements for a city DB:

Must work in both Node and browser
Must recognize Israel's borders (this throws out pretty much everything :()

mjradwin commented 10 years ago

Hebcal.com is using geonames.org data. It's free and pretty useful.

Scimonster commented 10 years ago

Yeah, you mentioned on hebcal/hebcal#85. Their Node version is at jacoblwe20/geode. I have a couple of issues with it:

It requires a login, and i would prefer that Hebcal could be run while disconnected from the internet (as i very often am).
It thinks i live on an Israeli "settlement", and i refuse to use something like that.

Scimonster commented 10 years ago

At the very least, as of 48c43a279a6d10aa635e8a81459e99cff666f728 it uses the "fractional number" format instead of deg/mins. (Funny commit message about the terminology there. :P)

MosheBerman commented 8 years ago

So build up your own. (I started that with MBPlacePickerController - see the json file.

Also, with browsers basically able to request user location access, is this really necessary?