Python Radius Search Module (Germany, at the moment)

This python module provides a few things related to geospatial information:

• a class GeoLoc representing geographic locations
• a function query that lets you search for locations
• a function distance that calculates the distance of two GeoLoc-objects
• a function area that returns all regions near a GeoLoc within a specified distance
• an sqlite3 database of German communities with hierarchical and geospatial information (probably the most up-to-date database around)

This module does only work for German locations, but extensions are planned. Website

Markus Döring

The code in geors.py is available under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3:

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

The contents of germany.db and gemeindeverzeichnis.csv are a derived work of the Gemeindeverzeichnis, whose copyright owner is the German federal statistic office on behalf of the community of German statistical offices. It may be copied and distributed at will, provided the German federal statistic office is attributed as source.

The contents of zipcode.db are derived from the Gemeindeverzeichnis and data provided by opengeodb.org, which is in the public domain.

• opengeodb.org, for providing the geospatial data.
• the Federal Republic of Germany, for providing statistical data