Reverse Geocoder
Reverse Geocoder takes a latitude / longitude coordinate and returns the nearest town/city.
This library improves on an existing library called reverse_geocode developed by Richard Penman in the following ways:
- Besides city and country, this library also returns the administrative 1 & 2 regions, latitude and longitude
- The performance is much faster since a parallelized K-D tree is implemented
(See https://github.com/thampiman/reverse-geocoder for performance comparison)
Supports Python 2 and 3. You can also load a custom data source. Fore more help, see https://github.com/thampiman/reverse-geocoder.
Example usage:
>>> import reverse_geocoder_whl as rg
>>> coordinates = (51.5214588,-0.1729636),(9.936033, 76.259952),(37.38605,-122.08385)
>>> rg.search(coordinates)
[{'name': 'Bayswater',
'cc': 'GB',
'lat': '51.51116',
'lon': '-0.18426',
'admin1': 'England',
'admin2': 'Greater London'},
{'name': 'Cochin',
'cc': 'IN',
'lat': '9.93988',
'lon': '76.26022',
'admin1': 'Kerala',
'admin2': 'Ernakulam'},
{'name': 'Mountain View',
'cc': 'US',
'lat': '37.38605',
'lon': '-122.08385',
'admin1': 'California',
'admin2': 'Santa Clara County'}]
Changelog
[1.5.3] Limit scipy
to >=0.17.1,<1.11
(previously >=0.17.1
) due to a breaking change in SciPy 1.11.
[1.5.2] Re-release to original project with Wheels.