@tomgp/whereis v1.15.0

DON'T USE THIS IN BROWSER AS IT INCLUDES A WHOLE BUNCH OG GEO DATA AND ITS NOT OPTIMISED IN ANY WAY

Given a [longitude, latitude] coordinate (array, IN THAT ORDER) return a JSON object indicating with information about the areas within which is contained...

{
  wgi: <IPPC WGI REGION>,
  wmo: <WMO REGION> // not yet
  country: {
    name: <NAME>
    iso2: <2 LETTER ISO CODE>
    iso3: <3 LETTER ISO CODE>
    isosubregion: <ISO SUB-REGION>
    isoregion: <ISO-REGION>
  },
}

WMO regions WGI regions

install npm i @tomgp/whereis'

import whereis from '@tomgp/whereis';

const details = whereis.location([0,53]);
console.log(details);

output...

{
  point: [ 0, 53 ],
  WGI: {
    continent: 'EUROPE',
    regionType: 'Land',
    regionName: 'N.Europe',
    regionAcronym: 'NEU',
    regionID: '16'
  },
  country: {
    administrativeName: 'United Kingdom',
    ISO2: 'GB',
    ISO3: 'GBR',
    isoRegion: 'Europe',
    isoSubRegion: 'Northern Europe'
  }
}

TODO

• Check all iso3 centroids i.e. get all the cetroids, put them into the locaiotn function and check that they match the returned iso3 value
• Sort out France, French Guiana etc with respect to WGI regions