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Pavan Chakravarthy
Pavan Chakravarthy

Reputation: 593

cannot import name GoogleMaps in python

I am using the code below to get the latitude & longitude of an address:

from googlemaps import GoogleMaps
gmaps = GoogleMaps(api_key)
address = 'Constitution Ave NW & 10th St NW, Washington, DC'
lat, lng = gmaps.address_to_latlng(address)
print lat, lng

but am getting the error below

File "C:/Users/Pavan/PycharmProjects/MGCW/latlong6.py", line 1, in <module>
    from googlemaps import GoogleMaps
ImportError: cannot import name GoogleMaps

I have seen another question similar to this, but the solution didn't work for me.

Upvotes: 16

Views: 15822

Answers (6)

Gidi9
Gidi9

Reputation: 222

Andrzej's answer worked for me! 

from googlemaps import Client as GoogleMaps

Just to add to what he said, you will need to

  • Click on the API Library in your Google Cloud Platform console
  • Search for "Geolocation API"
  • Click on "Enable"

If you create an API key before enabling this, you will also get that error. I had the same issue.

Under the "Credentials" tab, you will then see the option to create or copy your API key.

Upvotes: 2

Yajash Jhamb
Yajash Jhamb

Reputation: 7

pip install -U googlemaps

use this statement to install and use googlemaps api in Python

Upvotes: -2

Pavan Chakravarthy
Pavan Chakravarthy

Reputation: 593

I could write a code for multiple address but it never worked.. Finally found this website which could generate geocodes in bulk.. I think it may be useful to someone looking for bulk geocodes.. It also has reverse geocoding..

http://www.findlatitudeandlongitude.com/batch-geocode/#.VW2KRs-qqkq

Upvotes: 3

Scott
Scott

Reputation: 6389

Another option is parsing the json from photon.komoot.de. Example:

import requests, json

url = 'http://photon.komoot.de/api/?q='
addresses = ['175 5th Avenue NYC', 'Constitution Ave NW & 10th St NW, Washington, DC']

for address in addresses:
    resp = requests.get(url=url+address)
    data = json.loads(resp.text)
    print data['features'][0]['geometry']['coordinates']

prints:

[-76.1438449, 40.229888]
[-77.046567, 38.8924587]

These are given in lon, lat. The second one is a bit off by about 1 mile. Seems street intersections are difficult.

Upvotes: 4

Scott
Scott

Reputation: 6389

Use geopy instead, no need for api-key.

From their example:

from geopy.geocoders import Nominatim
geolocator = Nominatim()
location = geolocator.geocode("175 5th Avenue NYC")
print(location.address)
print((location.latitude, location.longitude))

prints:

Flatiron Building, 175, 5th Avenue, Flatiron, New York, NYC, New York, 10010,  United States of America
(40.7410861, -73.9896297241625)

Upvotes: 9

Andrzej Pronobis
Andrzej Pronobis

Reputation: 36106

I think what you are looking for is the Client class not GoogleMaps.

If you want to call it GoogleMaps import it as follows:

from googlemaps import Client as GoogleMaps

Upvotes: 5

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