Hi everyone, geopy 0.93 was released tonight.
What is geopy? ============== geopy is a geocoding toolbox for Python. It includes support for many popular geocoders including Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, Virtual Earth, geocoder.us, GeoNames, MediaWiki (with the GIS extension), and Semantic MediaWiki. It also includes a module for calculating geodesic distances using different models (spherical and ellipsoidal). Where can I get it? =================== setuptools: sudo easy_install geopy Cheese Shop: http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/geopy svn: svn co http://geopy.googlecode.com/svn/tags/release-0.93 geopy-0.93 Documentation: http://exogen.case.edu/projects/geopy What's new in this version? =========================== geopy.geocoders now includes GeoNames (www.geonames.org). geopy.distance module was added: calculate geodesic distances. geopy.util module was added: geocoders.Geocoder.parse_geo was moved there. geopy.geocoders.Google can now be used with different domains (such as 'maps.google.co.uk') and different resources ('maps' for the standard Google Maps interface, 'maps/geo' for the HTTP geocoder interface). How about an example? ===================== py> from geopy import geocoders py> us = geocoders.GeocoderDotUS() py> place, (lat, lng) = us.geocode("1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington DC") py> print "%s: %.5f, %.5f" % (place, lat, lng) 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20502: 38.89875, -77.03768 py> from geopy import distance py> _, a = us.geocode('10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106') py> _, b = us.geocode('1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington, DC') py> distance.distance(a, b).miles 301.35526872700962 py> from geopy import util py> util.parse_geo(u"23° 26m 22s N 23° 27m 30s E") (23.439444444444444, 23.458333333333332) -- Brian Beck Adventurer of the First Order -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
