Mastering Python for Networking and Security

Introduction to pygeocoder

pygeocoder is a Python module that facilitates the use of Google's geolocation functionality. With this module, you can easily find the addresses corresponding to the coordinates and vice versa. We can also use it to validate and format addresses.

The module is inside the official Python repository, so you can use pip to install it. In the https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pygeocoder URL, we can see the latest version of this module: $ pip install pygeocoder.

The module uses the Google Geocoding API v3 services to retrieve the coordinates from a specific address:

The main class of this module is the Geocoder class, which ...