Starting to code

Let's try to put into practice everything we've learned so far in code.

First, our request will go to a specific URL. It makes sense to store that URL as a variable:

base_url = 'https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?'

Nominatim requires us to add at least two parameters:

  • format: This will define the format of the data we'll get in return.
  • q: This stands for the address query—in other words, the address we want to geocode.

Due to the way requests work, we need to store those parameters in a dictionary:

params = { 'format':'json', 'q': 'Eiffel Tower'}

Finally, as we have everything we need now, we can send our request and get the answer. In the following snippet, we import the library and pass a GET request (using the  ...

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