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September 25, 2014 ยท View on GitHub

These are two miniature tools intended to help with the task of finding what country are given GPS coordinates in.

The tools are:

-- copyshapes.py Filter country shapes to create a smaller shape file. Use like this:

  1. get world borders from http://thematicmapping.org/downloads/world_borders.php
  2. run python import copyshapes copyshapes.filter_file( lambda x: x.GetField('REGION') == 150, 'TM_WORLD_BORDERS-0.3.shp', 'EUROPE.shp' )

-- countries.py Find what countries given GPS coordinates are. Example: import countries cc = countries.CountryChecker('TM_WORLD_BORDERS-0.3.shp') print cc.getCountry(countries.Point(49.7821, 3.5708)).iso

LICENSE:

This code is in public domain.