This Python script generates random geographic coordinates for specified countries or a randomly selected country.

• Generate random coordinates for specific countries
• "I'm Feeling Lucky" mode for random selection of a single country
• Pass list of countries for custom groupings
• OpenStreetMap links for generated coordinates
• Option to save coordinates to a JSON file
• Command-line interface and interactive mode

Before running the script, ensure you have the following installed:

• Python 3.x
• Required Python packages:
  • geopandas
  • shapely
  • tqdm

You can install the required packages using pip:

pip install geopandas shapely tqdm

python script_name.py [countries...] [-n NUM_POINTS] [-l] [-s] [-o OUTPUT_FILE]

• [countries...]: Optional. Specify country names or text files containing country names.
• -n, --num_points: Number of points to generate (default: 1).
• -l, --lucky: Enable "I'm Feeling Lucky" mode to select a random country.
• -s, --show_links: Show OpenStreetMap links for generated coordinates.
• -o, --output: Specify an output file to save the coordinates as JSON.

If no command-line arguments are provided, the script will run in interactive mode, prompting you for input.

1. Generate 3 random coordinates for France and Germany:

   python openguessersetmaker.py France Germany -n 3
   

2. Generate 5 random coordinates for countries listed in a file:

   python openguessersetmaker.py countries.txt -n 5
   

3. Use "I'm Feeling Lucky" mode to generate 2 coordinates for a randomly selected country:

   python openguessersetmaker.py -l -n 2
   

4. Generate a coordinate from the included world set and save it to a file:

   python openguessersetmaker.py world.txt -o coordinates.json
   

• Ensure that the world.txt file and the shapefile are in the same directory as the script.
• I have also included several other textfiles with template groupings, for all the continents, certain areas such as Oceania, and the European Union.
• When passing countries manually, or creating your own groupings template, ensure they're spelled exactly as found in world.txt
• The script uses the Natural Earth 1:10m Admin 0 Countries shapefile (and supporting files)
• In "I'm Feeling Lucky" mode, the script selects one random country and generates the specified number of points within that country.

This project, like most of my projects, is released under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 license, which allows you to do pretty much anything except make money off of it or permit others to make money off of it. If you don't like this, don't use my projects! It is that simple. I still consider this free and open source, fuck Richard Stallman and fuck the FSF. Who the hell reads "free" and thinks "libre"?

Made with Natural Earth. Free vector and raster map data @ naturalearthdata.com

Wrote all of this (both the code and most of this README) using Claude Sonnet 3.5