pyTamuGeocode

A library for working with Texas A&M's geocoding service


Install
pip install pyTamuGeocode==0.1

Documentation

pyTamuGeocode

A python library to perform simple queries against Texas A&M's geocoding service, and cache results in a sqlite database.

Installation

pip install pyTamuGeocode

Easy

Usage

To start, you need to register and get an API key (fairly simple process).

Once that's done, life is easy.

from pyTamuGeocode import TamuGeocode

tamu_api_key = 'api key here'
cache_db_file = 'geocode_cache.db'

tg = TamuGeocode(cache_db_file, tamu_api_key)

# street address, city, state, zip
tg_res = tg.geocode('2703 Ena Dr.', 'Lansing', 'Michigan', '48917')

print(tg_res)
(42.7053756, -84.6660981)

Additionally, once you geocode an address, it caches it by way of a tuple of the address, city, state, and zipcode.

Don't worry about capitalization, as it lower()'s all the address components.

Additionally, if you want to only check if an address is cached, pass in the only_check parameter:

tg_res = tg.geocode('2703 Ena Dr.', 'Lansing', 'Michigan', '48917', only_check=True)