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Example of using Mapzen's Search API to do geocoding, using Python 3.x and the requests library. More advanced version here: https://gist.github.com/dannguyen/036a62e32fc9f6765b82
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| # Example of using Mapzen Search for free geocoding | |
| # https://mapzen.com/documentation/search/search/ | |
| # result of geocoding all of New York's Starbucks: http://bit.ly/1P34T7h | |
| from os import environ | |
| import requests | |
| API_KEY = environ['MAPZEN_SEARCH_KEY'] | |
| BASE_URL = 'https://search.mapzen.com/v1/search' | |
| txt = '1007 MORRIS PARK AVE, 10462' | |
| resp = requests.get(BASE_URL, params = {'api_key': API_KEY, 'size': 1, 'text': txt}) | |
| data = resp.json() | |
| bbox = data['bbox'] | |
| # The data object returns a `bbox` attribute; by definition, for a single point | |
| # the two points will be the same, e.g. | |
| # 'bbox': [-73.85607, 40.848467, -73.85607, 40.848467] | |
| # However, we take the average just in case the sole result is some kind of shape | |
| pt = {'longitude': (bbox[0] + bbox[2]) / 2, 'latitude': (bbox[1] + bbox[3]) / 2 } |
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