Extracts firestation location details from a specified URL, stores this data as csv file format. The program then calculates the 3 closest firestations from a list of specified addresses

• Python 3.7 or later.
• A Google Maps API key.
• The following Python libraries
  • configparser
  • urllib
  • import urllib.parse
  • import urllib.parse as urlparse
  • import sys
  • import math
  • import logging
  • import logging.config
  • import io
  • import ssl
  • pandas
  • haversine
  • BeautifulSoup
  • googlemaps
  • requests
  • simplejson

Each Google Maps Web Service request requires an API key or client ID. API keys are freely available with a Google Account at https://developers.google.com/console. Note, your google account requires the following API's enabled to function

• [Directions API]
• [Distance Matrix API]
• [Elevation API]
• [Geocoding API]
• [Geolocation API]
• [Time Zone API]
• [Roads API]
• [Places API]

Configure firestation_ingest.ini with the appropriate parameters Edit Lookup_addresses.csv with the appropriate addresses to find the nearest n firestations firestation_nearest.json is a json file of the addresses \ associated n nearest firestations run firestation_ingest.py (no parameters required) to scrape the website and create json output Estimated travel time at 8am on a Monday / 11pm on a Thursday to the location from each firestation this extra calculation by setting b_travel=True/False