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