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fons
fons

Reputation: 5137

Country/region codes (iso-3166-1/iso-3166-2) to longitude and latitude

I need to convert from iso-3166-1/iso-3166-2 codes to longitude/latitude

Examples:

I have been searching around but failed to find a complete listing or, ideally, a Java library doing it.

This Github project is promising but is missing a lot of geolocation information for a lot of regions.

Note that, unlike the question Need a list of all countries in the world, with a longitude and latitude coordinate, this one refers to regional subdivisions (iso-3166-2).

Upvotes: 1

Views: 6279

Answers (2)

Nhan
Nhan

Reputation: 1474

These are the best resources I found when I had to tackle this problem:

Country coordinates: http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/legacy/codes/country_latlon/

ISO 3166-2 coordinates: https://github.com/oodavid/iso-3166-2/blob/master/iso_3166_2.js

Upvotes: 1

fons
fons

Reputation: 5137

Since I didn't get any answers, I will explain how I solved it.

I found this csv listing for the iso-3166-1 country code centroids: http://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/legacy/codes/country_latlon/ (I had to make a few manual tweaks)

As for the iso-3166-2 region centroids, I ended up creating a shell script which uses the Google Maps API to print the region centroids in csv format (note that I didn't verify the full output but the cases I checked are correct). Here's a simplified version of the script using curl and jq to process the API's output:

#!/bin/bash

# Example list of regions (full list can be obtained from https://www.ip2location.com/free/iso3166-2 )
REGIONS="VE-O GB-BKM GB-CAM GB-CMA"

for REGION in $REGIONS; do 
LATLON=$(curl -s "maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?sensor=false&address=$REGION" | jq -r '.results[0].geometry.location.lat,@text ",",.results[0].geometry.location.lng')
echo $REGION , $LATLON |  tr -d ' '
done

Then I imported the csv listings in my java code using Apache Commons CSV

Upvotes: 4

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