Geocoder is a geocoding library, written in python, simple and consistent.
Many online providers such as Google & Bing have geocoding services, these providers do not include Python libraries and have different JSON responses between each other.
Consistant JSON responses from various providers.
>>> g = geocoder.google('New York City')
>>> g.latlng
[40.7127837, -74.0059413]
>>> g.state
'New York'
>>> g.json
...To install Geocoder, simply:
$ pip install geocoder| Global | Country | Specialized |
|---|---|---|
| Yandex | GeoOttawa | |
| Bing | Geocoder.ca | FreeGeoIP |
| OpenStreetMap | Baidu | MaxMind |
| HERE | What3Words | |
| TomTom | CanadaPost | |
| MapQuest | GeoNames | |
| OpenCage | ||
| Yahoo | ||
| ArcGIS |
- Distance Tool
- Formats (JSON, GeoJSON, OSM, WKT)
- Command Line Interface
- Confidence Score
https://geocoder.readthedocs.org/
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Please feel free to give any feedback on this module. If you find any bugs or any enhancements to recommend please send some of your comments/suggestions to the Github Issues Page.
A big thanks to all the people that help contribute:
- Thomas Gratier - Wrote an article about Geocoder vs. Geopy
- Max Arnold - Submitted Github Issue
- Thanh Ha - Cleaned up code & Unit Testing
- Mahdi Yusuf - Promoted by Pycoders Weekly, Issue #155
- Alex Pilon - Cleaned up code
- Philip Hubertus - Provided HERE improvements & documentation
- Antonio Lima - Improved code quality and introduced Rate Limits
- Alexander Lukanin - Improved Python 3 compatibilty
- flebel - Submitted Github Issues
- patrickyan - Submitted Github Issues
- esy - Submitted Github Issues