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

@rawsix answer seems smart for a django user. Note however that the location returned by geolocator.reverse(query) is a list and not a Location object; so attempting to retrieve attribute address from it would result in an error.

Usually, the first item in that list has the closest address information. so u can simply do:

 location = location[0]
 address = location.address

Additionally, instead of passing a string latitude and longitude to the reverse method, you can use a tuple and it must be the latitude before the longitude. You can do:

 from geopy.geocoders import GoogleV3()
 geocoder = GoogleV3()
 location_list = geocoder.reverse((latitude, longitude))
 location = location_list[0]
 address = location.address