How to get Address from Latitude & Longitude in Django GeoIP?

Question

I cannot see anything in their API to do this: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/gis/geoip/#geoip-api

Or should I just use Google API for Reverse Geocodi

Answer 1

You can use maps API. I've included a snippet which I use to calculate marathon start points converted into a PointField using Postgis with Django. This should set you on your way.

import requests

def geocode(data):
    url_list = []
    for item in data:
        address = ('%s+%s' % (item.city, item.country)).replace(' ', '+')
        url = 'http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=%s&sensor=false' % address
        url_list.append([item.pk, url])

    json_results = []
    for url in url_list:
        r = requests.get(url[1])
        json_results.append([url[0], r.json])

    result_list = []
    for result in json_results:
        if result[1]['status'] == 'OK':
            lat = float(result[1]['results'][0]['geometry']['location']['lat'])
            lng = float(result[1]['results'][0]['geometry']['location']['lng'])
            marathon = Marathon.objects.get(pk=result[0])
            marathon.point = GEOSGeometry('POINT(%s %s)' % (lng, lat))
            marathon.save()

    return result_list