This is a simple Go library and command-line utility to help working with Italian administrative territorial entities (towns, cities, regions, ...).

It provides:

• a struct Comune to represent the most relevant properties
• a pre-generated array Comuni (it's a slice of Comune structs) containing up-to-date records already converted to Go
• and an utility to download the official CSV with ISTAT codes and convert to an easily (de-)serializable JSON format (or to Go source directly)

$ go build -o go-comuni-italiani cmd/go-comuni/main.go

Otherwise you can also use the provided Makefile (which will create the binary bin/github.com/panta/go-comuni-italiani):

$ make

$ ./bin/github.com/panta/go-comuni-italiani convert -allow-insecure -output comuni.json

(please note that at this time it seems the -allow-insecure flag seems to be needed on macOS)

You can then unmarshal the generated json into an array of Comune. See the code in example/example.go.