how to convert from longitude and latitude to country or city?

Question

I need to convert longitude and latitude coordinates to either country or city, is there an example of this in python?

thanks in advance!

Answer 1

I use Google's API.

from urllib2 import urlopen import json def getplace(lat, lon):     url = "http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?"     url += "latlng=%s,%s&sensor=false" % (lat, lon)     v = urlopen(url).read()     j = json.loads(v)     components = j['results'][0]['address_components']     country = town = None     for c in components:         if "country" in c['types']:             country = c['long_name']         if "postal_town" in c['types']:             town = c['long_name']     return town, country   print(getplace(51.1, 0.1)) print(getplace(51.2, 0.1)) print(getplace(51.3, 0.1)) 

Output:

(u'Hartfield', u'United Kingdom') (u'Edenbridge', u'United Kingdom') (u'Sevenoaks', u'United Kingdom')