Downloading last geonames.org dumps

In order to get the latest dumps from geonames.org you can invoke the script in this way.

geonames_importer.sh -a download-data [optional_download_dir]

By default, the application will download the data from geonames in a subdirectory of the current path called "download".

You can specify an alternate folder just in case you need to.

The downloaded files in both cases should be:

admin1CodesASCII.txt
allCountries.txt
alternateNames.txt
countryInfo.txt
featureCodes_en.txt
iso-languagecodes.txt
timeZones.txt

In addition to these files there is another one called continentCodes.txt. This file is not included as a downlodable file by geonames.org and is provided as part of this git repository.

The script will unzip the original files downloaded from geonames in a folder called "data". This folder will contain all the data needed for the "import-dump" action.