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Simple alternative to django-cities

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This add-on provides models and commands to import country/city data into your database. The data is pulled from GeoNames and contains:

  • country names

  • optional 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.

Installation

Install django-cities-light:

pip install django-cities-light

Or the development version:

pip install -e git+git@github.com:yourlabs/django-cities-light.git#egg=cities_light

Add cities_light to your INSTALLED_APPS.

You may not need the city model and database table. A project like betspire.com doesn’t need it for instance. So the City model will be made ‘abstract’ if this setting is set as such:

CITIES_LIGHT_ENABLE_CITY=False

Now, run syncdb, it will only create tables for models that are not disabled:

./manage.py syncdb

Note that this project supports django-south.

Data update

Finally, populate your database with command:

./manage.py cities_light

This command is well documented, consult the help with:

./manage.py help cities_light

Documentation

Move on to the complete documentation for details, particularely how to filter what cities you want to import.

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