PyRank
geographiclib

geographiclib

Python implementation of the geodesic routines
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

geographiclib has 18.3M monthly downloads and 70 GitHub stars. Version 2.1 supports Python 3.7+, first published in 2011.

It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Aug 2025.

It is used by 80 tracked packages, including docassemble-base, querysource and docassemble-webapp.

Downloads
Day
722.7K
Week
5.1M
Month
18.3M
Stars
70
Forks
9
Issues
2
Version
2.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
35
Adoption
90
Community
10
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
319 days ago
Monthly downloads
18,277,254
Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
• Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
18,277,254
Stars
70
Stars per 1k downloads
0.00
• Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
726,232
Month daily avg
609,242
Momentum
+19.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.7
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
• Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
MIT
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
319 days ago
Total releases
28
Releases/year
1.9
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
• Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
3
Monthly downloads
18,277,254
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
• Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
23
 
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
33.3%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 548.6K
Windows 2.9K
macOS 1.2K

Python Versions

3.12
71.9% 377.4K
3.11
11.2% 58.9K
3.10
7.8% 40.8K
3.14
5.4% 28.5K
3.9
3.7% 19.3K

Top Countries

1. US US
469.6K
2. DE DE
26.2K
3. NL NL
7.8K
4. IN IN
7.2K
5. HK HK
6.4K
6. AU AU
5.7K
7. BR BR
5.1K
8. IE IE
4.1K
9. GB GB
4.0K
10. SG SG
2.9K

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
September 30, 2011
Last Release
10 months ago
Last Commit
10 months ago
Latest Version
2.1
Total Releases
28
Contributors
3
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Author
Charles Karney
Wheels
py3
Keywords
gis geographical earth distance geodesic
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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