Release notes

Version 0.5.0

April 13, 2024

• Change to minimum supported Python version to 3.10. Run unit test with pandas 2.0. #74

Version 0.4.1

September 7, 2022

• NA county_code is valid, not Nan #74

Version 0.4.0

December 13, 2022

• The minimum supported Python version is updated to Python 3.8 #65

• Fix error in latitude grouping when creating a unique postcode index. With this fix Nominatim(.., unique=True) correctly computes the average latitude for each postcode (if multiple localities share the same postcode), instead of taking the first latitude value. #62

• The default folder to store downloaded data is changed to ~/.cache/pgeocode/. This default can still be changed by setting the PGEOCODE_DATA_DIR environment variable. #51

• Implemented Nominatim.query_location to query place names with text search Fuzzy search is supported if an optional extra dependency thefuzz is installed. #59

• Add more countries that are now supported by GeoNames including: AZ (Azerbaijan), CL (Chile), CY (Cyprus), EE (Estonia), FM (Federated States of Micronesia), HT (Haiti), KR (Republic of Korea), MW (Malawi), PE (Peru), PW (Palau), RS (Serbia), SG (Singapore) #66

Version 0.3.0

October 23, 2020

• Add support for a fallback mechanism for data sources

• Set the default fallback URL to https://symerio.github.io/postal-codes-data/ (only used when the main GeoNames server has availability issues).

• Add support for data sources in .txt format (non zipped)

• Document how to use custom data sources

Version 0.2.1

February 21, 2019

• Fix Nominatim for AS, LT, VA countries.

• Drop Python 2.7 support.

• Allow custom download locations.

Version 0.2.0

December 24, 2019

• Fix download URL.

• Drop Python 2.7 support.

Version 0.1.2

November 8, 2019

• Allow looking up all the locations for a postcode with the unique=False parameter of Nominatim.

• Fix handling of Candian postal codes

Version 0.1.1

November 8, 2018

• Fix compatibility with pandas >=0.23

Version 0.1.0

August 28, 2018

Initial release