visas in JSON

A visa data progect

What do I do in this project?

• I provide data about visa requirements for citizens of a different countries.
• I provide geographical data according to the de facto, not de jure status of territory.
• If you need geo data with de jure status, please use https://github.com/mledoze/countries
• This is an apolitical project.

Where I can find the data?

• Geo data is in data/geo/ folder
• Visa data is in visa/geo/ folder
• Countries data in data/info/countries.json
• Compressed version of the data can be found in dist/ folder

Contribution:

• Any kind of contribution is welcome. Specially at keeping visa information up to date.

Visa types:

• u - Customs union (e.g. Schengen Zone)
• f - Visa not required
• e - Electronic visa required (e.g. ESTA, ETA)
• o - Visa getting obtained online
• a - Visa on arrival
• r - Visa required
• d - Visa refused (e.g.Iran visa for citizens of Israel)

Building data:

• Run tool.py build to build compressed version of all countries.
• Run tool.py build --validate to validate your json and make it nicely aligned.

Modifying data:

• Run tool.py visa add <cca2> <name> to add new visa.
• Run tool.py visa set <visa_type> <from-cca2> (--cross | --requirement | --policy) <to-cca2>... to set visa requirement for country to country(s).
• Run tool.py visa rm <cca2> to remove visa.

Other projects used:

• https://github.com/mledoze/countries
• https://github.com/docopt/docopt

Useful links:

• http://geojson.io/
• http://geojson.org/
• http://docopt.org/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Visa_requirements_by_nationality