A community-built gazetteer and graph of ancient places: https://pleiades.stoa.org/
A convenient format for storing structured data that may be processed one record at a time (a.k.a. newline-delimited JSON): http://jsonlines.org/
$ python pleiades-jsonl.py -h
usage: pleiades-jsonl.py [-h] [-l LOGLEVEL] [-v] [-w] [-p PLEIADES]
Convert Pleiades JSON dump to JSON Lines (new-line-delimited JSON)
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-l LOGLEVEL, --loglevel LOGLEVEL
desired logging level (case-insensitive string: DEBUG,
INFO, WARNING, or ERROR (default: WARNING)
-v, --verbose verbose output (logging level == INFO) (default:
False)
-w, --veryverbose very verbose output (logging level == DEBUG) (default:
False)
-p PLEIADES, --pleiades PLEIADES
Pleiades JSON dataset to use (default: http://atlantid
es.org/downloads/pleiades/json/pleiades-places-
latest.json.gz) (default: http://atlantides.org/downlo
ads/pleiades/json/pleiades-places-latest.json.gz)
Use the -p (--pleiades) option to specify an alternative remote or local source file. An uncompressed file may be specified, if available. If the filename ends in ".gz", the script will attempt to uncompress it and store the uncompressed version in the local directory.
The script writes the result to the local directory with teh filename: {inputfilename-minus-extension}.jsonl
- Python 3.x (tested on 3.5.2)
- jsonlines
- progressbar2
- wget
- Convert to package for better distribution and requirements management.