diff --git a/scripts/geodata/geonames/geonames_sqlite.py b/scripts/geodata/geonames/geonames_sqlite.py
index 17c56dbf..01d7e5df 100644
--- a/scripts/geodata/geonames/geonames_sqlite.py
+++ b/scripts/geodata/geonames/geonames_sqlite.py
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ this_dir = os.path.realpath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
 sys.path.append(os.path.realpath(os.path.join(os.pardir, os.pardir)))
 
 from geodata.encoding import safe_decode
+from geodata.geonames.paths import *
 
 from geodata.file_utils import *
 from geodata.log import *
@@ -27,12 +28,6 @@ from itertools import islice, chain
 log_to_file(sys.stderr)
 logger = logging.getLogger('geonames.sqlite')
 
-GEONAMES_DB_NAME = 'geonames.db'
-
-DEFAULT_GEONAMES_DB_PATH = os.path.join(this_dir, os.path.pardir,
-                                        os.path.pardir, os.path.pardir,
-                                        'data', 'geonames', GEONAMES_DB_NAME)
-
 BASE_URL = 'http://download.geonames.org/export/'
 
 DUMP_URL = urlparse.urljoin(BASE_URL, 'dump/')
diff --git a/scripts/geodata/geonames/paths.py b/scripts/geodata/geonames/paths.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..47229f5a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/geodata/geonames/paths.py
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+import os
+
+this_dir = os.path.realpath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
+
+GEONAMES_DB_NAME = 'geonames.db'
+
+DEFAULT_GEONAMES_DB_PATH = os.path.join(this_dir, os.path.pardir,
+                                        os.path.pardir, os.path.pardir,
+                                        'data', 'geonames', GEONAMES_DB_NAME)