Custom Notes: Import Relevant Geoname-data to your MySQL-instance

This is a fork of codigofuerte/GeoNames-MySQL-DataImport that deletes many entries. It works for MySQL 8.

MySQL config

The MySQL-version used in development is v8. Note that for older mysql versions (<=5.6), an index of varchar with length varchar(200) is too much. Whenever an entry is used as an index, change occurrences of varchar(200) to varchar(191) in 'geonames_db_struct.sql`.

New DB

Add a database with name geonames that is encoded in default UTF8 (in MySQL: utf8mb4).

CREATE DATABASE geonames CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;

New user

Create a user that can only access the geonames database.

CREATE USER 'geonames'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'REPLACETHISWITHTHERIGHTPASSWORD';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON geonames.* TO 'geonames'@'localhost';

Optional: Set timeout values for imports

You might have to increase the mysql values for net_read_timeout, net_write_timeout, and connect_timeout in case you get time-out errors when importing.

SET GLOBAL connect_timeout=3600;
SET GLOBAL wait_timeout=3600;
SET GLOBAL net_read_timeout=3600;
SET GLOBAL net_write_timeout=3600;

Configure the script

In geonames_importer.sh, configure the necessary parameters:

# Default values for database variables.
dbhost="localhost"
dbport=3306
dbname="geonames"
dbusername="geonames"
dbpassword="REPLACETHISWITHTHERIGHTPASSWORD"

Fresh install

# give the right permissions
chmod +x geonames_importer.sh

# download the data
./geonames_importer.sh -a download-data

# create the db-structure
./geonames_importer.sh -a create-db

# import the data dumps
./geonames_importer.sh -a import-dumps

# delete the unncessary entries and edit some countries/regions
./geonames_importer.sh -a edit-entries

Update

# download the data
./geonames_importer.sh -a download-data

# delete the old data
./geonames_importer.sh -a truncate-db

# import the data dumps
./geonames_importer.sh -a import-dumps

# delete the unncessary entries and edit some countries/regions
./geonames_importer.sh -a edit-entries

Original notes: V 2.0 Shell Script for importing geonames.org data dumps into a MySQL database.

Usage:

./geonames_importer.sh -a "action"

Where "action" can be:

• download-data Downloads the last packages of data available in GeoNames. An additional parameter with a download directory should be used.
• create-db Creates the mysql database structure with no data.
• create-tables Creates the tables in the current database. Useful if we want to import them in an exsiting db.
• import-dumps Imports geonames data into db. A database is previously needed for this to work.
• drop-db Removes the db completely.
• truncate-db Removes geonames data from db.

The reference site is still under construction for this new version. Stay tuned to this site.