lat-lon-parser

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############## lat_lon_parser ##############

Code for parsing lat-long coordinates in "various" formats, and for converting between lat-long formats (e.g. decimal degrees to degrees-minutes-seconds)

Note: perhaps it would be better to integrate this with a more full featured lib like:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/LatLon23

But that one does not seem to support parsing unknown formats at this point -- and it's GPL, and perhaps a little more complex and structured than it needs to be.

Parsing Latitude and Longitude strings

Usage:

from lat_lon_parser import parse

.. code-block::

In [12]: from lat_lon_parser import parse

In [13]: parse("45° 12.6' W")
Out[13]: -45.21

Formats supported:

Decimal degrees (easy)::

23.43 -45.21

Decimal Degrees with quadrant::

23.43 N 45.21 W

Or with spelled out::

23.43 North 45.21 West

(note that all of the cardinal directions are not case-sensitive)

Degrees, decimal minutes: (now it starts getting tricky!)::

23° 25.800' -45° 12.600'

or::

23 25.800' -45 12.600'

or::

23° 25.8' N 45° 12.6' West

Degrees, Minutes, Seconds: (really fun!!!)::

23° 25' 48.0" -45° 12' 36.0"

or::

23d 25' 48.0" -45d 12' 36.0"

or::

23° 25' 48.0" North 45° 12' 36.0" S

or -- lots of other combinations!

For a more complete list, see the tests

How it works:

This uses a pretty "stupid" algorithm -- it assumes that all formats will be something like:

[-][space] degrees [separator] minutes [separator] seconds [separator] [N[orth]|S[outh|E[ast]|W[est]]

But that actually is pretty darn robust!

If you have other formats you want to be able to parse, please contribute tests! -- And ideally a patch if the current code doesn't work.

Conversion to Latitude Longitude Formats

Also included is code to convert to other formats used for latitude and longitude:

• degrees
• degrees minutes
• degrees minutes seconds

Converting to numbers:

Functions for returning tuples of numbers::

to_dec_deg(23, 12, 3) 23.200833333333332 to_deg_min(34.1234) (34.0, 7.404) to_deg_min_sec(34.1234) (34.0, 7, 24.24)

Converting to strings:

Functions for converting to various string formats::

to_str_dec_deg(23, 12, 3) '23.200833°' to_str_deg_min(2.345) "2° 20.700'" to_str_deg_min_sec(-23.1234) '-23° 7' 24.24"'

to_str(23.45) '23.450000°' to_str(23, 45) "23° 45.000'" to_str(23, 45, 6.7) '23° 45' 6.70"'

Usage with Pandas

Question from a user:

How to apply this lat_lon_parser on pandas dataframe specific column?

Turns out it's straightforward -- just pass the parse function to apply::

In [20]: df = pandas.DataFrame({'coords':["12d13'N","32 5 14", "30.123W"]})

In [21]: df
Out[21]:
    coords
0  12d13'N
1  32 5 14
2  30.123W

In [22]: df['coords'] = df['coords'].apply(parse)

In [23]: df
Out[23]:
      coords
0  12.216667
1  32.087222
2 -30.123000