geonames.py @@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ Code for accessing various geocoding web services with an ultra simple API: The geocode functions return (unicode_place_name, (float_lat, float_lon)) if the string can be geocoded, and (None, (None, None)) if it cannot. -Currently supported: Google Geocoder, Yahoo! Geocoder, and Yahoo! Placemaker. +Currently supported: Google Geocoder, Yahoo! Geocoder, Yahoo! Placemaker and +GeoNames. Google: @@ -19,7 +20,7 @@ Google: >>> geocode('oneuth') (u'South, Bloomfield, NY 14469, USA', (-77.5385449999999, 42.865267000000003)) -Yahoo: +Yahoo!: >>> from geocoders.yahoo import geocoder >>> geocode = geocoder('YAHOO-API-KEY') @@ -40,3 +41,11 @@ Yahoo! Placemaker: While Yahoo! Placemaker isn't strictly designed as a geocoder, in practice it can be useful for things like "did you mean location X" in a regular search engine. + +GeoNames: + +>>> from geocoders.geonames import geocoder +>>> geocode('new york') +(u'New York', (40.714269100000003, -74.005972900000003)) +>>> geocode('oneuth') +(None, (None, None)) README.txt eb452e69fac2cd3c6f19bc16db88416b929ef451 Simon Willison simon@simonwillison.net http://github.com/jacobian/geocoders/commit/e8d8761beec899f1f16fd7f6d9bf2ab391e3cfd6 e8d8761beec899f1f16fd7f6d9bf2ab391e3cfd6 2009-05-26T16:42:12-07:00 2009-05-26T16:42:12-07:00 Added geocoder for GeoNames 4d90758493de378da81c62e76387a9281ae02ecd Simon Willison simon@simonwillison.net