Google Geocode Lookup

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# models.py
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import urllib
import settings

def get_lat_long(location):
    key = settings.GOOGLE_API_KEY
    output = "csv"
    location = urllib.quote_plus(location)
    request = "http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=%s&output=%s&key=%s" % (location, output, key)
    data = urllib.urlopen(request).read()
    dlist = data.split(',')
    if dlist[0] == '200':
        return "%s, %s" % (dlist[2], dlist[3])
    else:
        return ''

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Comments

falsh (on October 30, 2009):

get problems with : location = urllib.quote_plus(location)

when location has some accents

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falsh (on October 30, 2009):

solution : location = smart_str(urllib.quote_plus(location))

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anentropic (on November 22, 2009):

does this return "lat, lon" or "lon, lat" ?

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anentropic (on November 22, 2009):

P.S. great snippet, thanks

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anentropic (on February 6, 2010):

@falsh ...you mean:

location = urllib.quote_plus(smart_str(location))

(the other way still throws errors if you have foreign chars)

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whardeman (on October 25, 2010):

Good stuff...now that Google have released the v3 api, this could be simplified a bit since key is no longer required. Parsing the JSON output should be easier as well...

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/geocoding/

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mhulse (on June 15, 2011):

FYI: This snippet uses v3 gmaps API. I was in the process or re-writing this code to work with v3 and JSON, but it looks like someone beat me to it.

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