district-data-germany

WARNING!! MultiPolygon support is still very buggy! Complex results may be wrong!

Functions

Districts.init() [ASYNC]

load the dataset into memory.

Districts.getDistrictData()

Return the complete dataset. This is mostly used interally.

Districts.getDistrictByPoint(lat, lon)

Return the district data that contains the given position or null if the point is not in germany.

Example

const Districts = require('district-data-germany');

const districts = new Districts();
await districts.init();

const district =.districts.getDistrictByPoint(49.4767969145344, 10.9835363685);
console.log(district);

Output:

{
  name_2: 'Fürth',
  name_0: 'Germany',
  name_1: 'Bayern',
  cca_2: '09563',
  engtype_2: 'District',
  geo_point_2d: [ 49.4914188335, 10.9654822077 ],
  hasc_2: 'DE.BY.FL',
  id_2: 77,
  type_2: 'Kreisfreie Stadt',
  id_0: 86,
  id_1: 2,
  iso: 'DEU',
  geo_shape: { type: 'Polygon', coordinates: [ [Array] ] },
  ccn_2: 0
}

License

Software

AGPL-3.0-or-later

Copyright (c) 2020 by Alexander Wunschik [email protected]

Data

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 by opendatasoft.com