Wiki source code of Geocoding
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1.1 | 1 | Geocoding is the process of turning text into coordinates. For more information look at the wikipedia page: [[https:~~/~~/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_geocoding>>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_geocoding]] |
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| 4 | There are several online services available to perform this task with. To make it easy there is a user agent available as a python library: | ||
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| 6 | * [[GeoPy>>https://geopy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/]] | ||
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| 9 | Example snippets on how to incorporate geopy geocoding into your scripts/apps: | ||
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| 11 | (% class="box" %) | ||
| 12 | ((( | ||
| 13 | def geocode(place): | ||
| 14 | """ | ||
| 15 | Use geopy with Nominatim as geocoding service | ||
| 16 | """ | ||
| 17 | # get a handler for a Nominatim service object | ||
| 18 | service = geopy.Nominatim(user_agent = "myGeocoder") | ||
| 19 | if (placeObj:= service.geocode({'city':f"{place}"},country_codes="NL,BE,LU")): | ||
| 20 | coords = list(placeObj)[-1] | ||
| 21 | else: | ||
| 22 | coords = (0,0) | ||
| 23 | return coords | ||
| 24 | ))) |