Python module for getting latitude and longitude from the name of a US city

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Deepak B picture Deepak B · Dec 3, 2012 · Viewed 32.7k times · Source

I am looking for a python module which can take in the name of the city as the input and return the latitude and longitude of the input.

Answer

eumiro picture eumiro · Dec 3, 2012

Have a look at geopy. In the "getting started" documentation it shows:

>>> from geopy import geocoders  
>>> gn = geocoders.GeoNames()

>>> print gn.geocode("Cleveland, OH 44106")
(u'Cleveland, OH, US', (41.4994954, -81.6954088))

>>> gn.geocode("Cleveland, OH", exactly_one=False)[0]
(u'Cleveland, OH, US', (41.4994954, -81.6954088))

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