Pet In Touch location catalog

Source: Countries States Cities Database, by Darshan Gada and contributors
https://github.com/dr5hn/countries-states-cities-database
Snapshot: edb91b252fd6ebff7b2b502f60fc25ea1e10d59c (retrieved 2026-10-06)
Source file: json/countries+states+cities.json

This derived database is made available under the Open Database License
(ODbL) 1.0. See LICENSE.txt. Individual contents are under the Database
Contents License described there. Attribution is required.

world.jsonl.gz is the complete downloadable derived catalog used by this
application: UTF-8 gzip-compressed JSON Lines, one country per line, with
name, iso2, states (name, type, cities). City names are deduplicated within
each state. Coordinates and other unused fields are omitted. Türkiye and
İstanbul are ordered first for compatibility with the original demo seed.
The importer merges repeated subdivision names within the same country,
compares names case-insensitively and matches İstanbul with legacy Istanbul.
No geographic subdivisions or cities have been invented for empty regions.

Reimport with: php artisan db:seed --class=LocationSeeder --force
The import is offline and additive, preserves existing IDs and names, and
invalidates location API caches. Do not run simultaneous location imports.
Run it on each target database after deploying this bundle; application
code deployment alone does not populate an existing database.