How to get coordinates of address from Python

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I need to geocode an address to a latitude, longitude pair to display on Google Maps, but I need to do this server-side in Django. I could only find reference to the Javascript V3 API. How do I do it from Python?

Mr.Coffee · Answer 1 · 2015-09-01T13:51:14.797

I would strongly recommend to use geopy. It will return the latitude and longitude, you can use it in the Google JS client afterwards.

>>> from geopy.geocoders import Nominatim
>>> geolocator = Nominatim()
>>> location = geolocator.geocode("175 5th Avenue NYC")
>>> print(location.address)
Flatiron Building, 175, 5th Avenue, Flatiron, New York, NYC, New York, ...
>>> print((location.latitude, location.longitude))
(40.7410861, -73.9896297241625)

Additionally you can specifically define you want to use Google services by using GoogleV3 class as a geolocator

>>> from geopy.geocoders import GoogleV3
>>> geolocator = GoogleV3()

score 19 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 29 '19 at 13:03

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I would suggest using Py-Googlemaps. To use it is easy:

from googlemaps import GoogleMaps
gmaps = GoogleMaps(API_KEY)
lat, lng = gmaps.address_to_latlng(address)

EDIT: If necessary, install Py-Googlemaps via: sudo easy_install googlemaps.

edited Aug 29 '19 at 13:03

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answered Apr 27 '11 at 16:13

Herman Schaaf

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Is it possible to get API keys that work with this library anymore? I generated a Javascript v3 API key but it doesn't seem to be working. – powerj1984 Apr 23 '13 at 14:57
@powerj1984 I get a warning for malware when I try to access your link, is that normal or should I be worried? – Dennis Jaheruddin Feb 23 '17 at 20:22
When I posted the link there was no warning for malware. Not sure what's going on now. – powerj1984 Feb 24 '17 at 05:01

score 6 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 27 '11 at 16:19

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Google Data has an API for Maps has a REST-ful API - and they also have a Python library built around it already.

answered Apr 27 '11 at 16:19

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score 0 · Answer 4 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:47

Here is the code working for Google Maps API v3 (based on this answer):

import urllib
import simplejson

googleGeocodeUrl = 'http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?'

def get_coordinates(query, from_sensor=False):
    query = query.encode('utf-8')
    params = {
        'address': query,
        'sensor': "true" if from_sensor else "false"
    }
    url = googleGeocodeUrl + urllib.urlencode(params)
    json_response = urllib.urlopen(url)
    response = simplejson.loads(json_response.read())
    if response['results']:
        location = response['results'][0]['geometry']['location']
        latitude, longitude = location['lat'], location['lng']
        print query, latitude, longitude
    else:
        latitude, longitude = None, None
        print query, "<no results>"
    return latitude, longitude

See official documentation for the complete list of parameters and additional information.

this doesn't work anymore because google quires a personal API key to work: http://g.co/dev/maps-no-account — skjerns, Mar 04 '20 at 11:55
@skjerns thanks for the update! if it's easy to fix, feel free to update the answer — Dennis Golomazov, Mar 04 '20 at 15:22

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 14 '14 at 03:19

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Python package googlemaps seems to be very able to do geocoding and reverse geocoding.

The latest version of googlemaps package is available at: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/googlemaps

answered Aug 14 '14 at 03:19

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