Thinking in GIS
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Geocoding in web applications: OpenLayers and geoPy to the rescue!
Posted: September 17, 2010Categories: jQuery, GIS, Python, Django, OpenLayers, Tutorials, geopy, Uncategorized
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In many situations, in your web applications, you will need a feature for geocoding an address, a city, a country...A possible approach is to use the Javascript API of the main geocoding services (Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, GeoNames...).But as I have showed in a previous post, if you are using Python, there is an excellent API that will take care of this, without Javascript headaches: GeoPy.In this post I will show how to use geoPy, OpenLayers and a bit of JQuery to assemble a simple but nice tool for geocoding within OpenLayers.In my server code I will use Django but...
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