I'm looking for a way to take a rough location string (ex. "Buddy's Pub in City, State"), and convert it to the best-guess set of coordinates. I've looked at GeoPy and Google's Geocoding API, but they are not exactly what I'm looking for. Any help would be appreciated.
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This repository should be helpful : https://github.com/googlemaps/google-maps-services-python – aminrd Dec 18 '19 at 21:55
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@aminrd Thank you, that is exactly what I'm looking for. – dburenok Dec 18 '19 at 22:07
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This is explicitly off-topic. – AMC Dec 19 '19 at 00:04
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@AlexanderCécile How so? – dburenok Dec 19 '19 at 00:52
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Please see: [help/on-topic] – AMC Dec 19 '19 at 00:53
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Solved it thanks to @aminrd tip.
Google Places API is the answer.
import googlemaps
API_KEY = "your google API key goes here"
gmaps = googlemaps.Client(key=API_KEY)
place_result = gmaps.find_place(input='Buddy\'s Pub in City, State', input_type='textquery', fields=["geometry/location"])
print(place_result)
Output looks like
{'candidates': [{'geometry': {'location': {'lat': XX.2804533, 'lng': -XXX.1195808}}}], 'status': 'OK'}
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