How to get Latitude and Longitude of address in Odoo using Google Api in Python

You may require to get Latitude and Longitude between of an address in Odoo ( Openerp ) for many reasons . Here are steps to follow –

1. First install pygeocoder Python Package

Simply you can install using –

apt-get install python-pip

pip install pygeocoder
or from python packages site.

2. Now import Geocoder class from pygeocoder in your py file

from pygeocoder import Geocoder
import urllib

import json

Now you use get_latitude_longitude (Global )function given below , pass address as argument and you will get a list of latitude and longitude returned from Google Api – ex [19.1605798,72.8380889]
def get_latitude_longitude(addr):

url =’https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?sensor=false&address=’

url += urllib.quote(addr.encode(‘utf8’))

res = []

try:

gcoder = Geocoder()

results = gcoder.geocode(addr)

res.append(results[0].latitude)

res.append(results[0].longitude)

except Exception, e:

pass

return res