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Hi @waldoj! When I saw you post about this project a few years back, I never forgot about it because I loved the idea. I'm hoping to put a bit of time into it as it as a static file API with this data could be generally useful to our work.

In trying to run it, I noticed that the download link in get_file.sh needs to be updated to reflect the new website structure. The new download link is on this page. I have a pull request ready to go for the fix—and the result of updating the file—if you're interested and still using/updating this.

• write a script that explodes the CSV file into 199,760 JSON files (one per line)
• write another script that transfers these files to S3
• set up a CloudFront distribution
• register a domain name
• set up a cron job that will update the files periodically

Right now, we're creating a file for each GNIS ID, but not for each FIPS code, which is to say that this is useful for FIPS -> GNIS, but not GNIS -> FIPS. I'm not sure whether any GNIS IDs are identical to any FIPS codes. If not, then they can live side by side. But if they are, then we need to namespace the files, e.g. /gnis/12345.json.

• link to GitHub repo
• provide link to download CSV
• permit a test API query