Get latitude and longitude based on location name with Google Autocomplete API

You can use the Google Geocoder service in the Google Maps API to convert from your location name to a latitude and longitude. So you need some code like: var geocoder = new google.maps.Geocoder(); var address = document.getElementById(“address”).value; geocoder.geocode( { ‘address’: address}, function(results, status) { if (status == google.maps.GeocoderStatus.OK) { // do something with the … Read more

Converting latitude and longitude to decimal values

To parse your input use the following. function ParseDMS(input) { var parts = input.split(/[^\d\w]+/); var lat = ConvertDMSToDD(parts[0], parts[1], parts[2], parts[3]); var lng = ConvertDMSToDD(parts[4], parts[5], parts[6], parts[7]); } The following will convert your DMS to DD function ConvertDMSToDD(degrees, minutes, seconds, direction) { var dd = degrees + minutes/60 + seconds/(60*60); if (direction == “S” … Read more

How to GeoCode a simple address using Data Science Toolbox

Like this: library(httr) library(rjson) data <- paste0(“[“,paste(paste0(“\””,dff$address,”\””),collapse=”,”),”]”) url <- “http://www.datasciencetoolkit.org/street2coordinates” response <- POST(url,body=data) json <- fromJSON(content(response,type=”text”)) geocode <- do.call(rbind,sapply(json, function(x) c(long=x$longitude,lat=x$latitude))) geocode # long lat # San Francisco, California, United States -117.88536 35.18713 # Mobile, Alabama, United States -88.10318 30.70114 # La Jolla, California, United States -117.87645 33.85751 # Duarte, California, United States -118.29866 33.78659 … Read more

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