geopy makes it easy for developers to locate the coordinates of addresses, cities, countries, and landmarks across the globe using third-party geocoders and other sources of data, such as wikis.
Under development since September 2006. Latest release: 0.93.
geopy is open source software released under the MIT license.
Questions, comments, and bug reports are welcome at exogen@gmail.com, the geopy mailing list, and on the developer's blog.
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From the Cheese Shop:
$ sudo easy_install geopy
From the Subversion repository:
$ svn co http://geopy.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ geopy-trunk $ cd geopy-trunk/ $ sudo python setup.py install
...or use easy_install:
$ sudo easy_install http://geopy.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/
geopy includes geocoder classes for MediaWiki (with the GIS extension), Semantic MediaWiki, the Google geocoder, the Yahoo! geocoder, geocoder.us, Virtual Earth, and GeoNames.
See the Getting Started page of the documentation for help with using the geocoders, calculating distances, parsing angles, and using other features.