Offline Reverse Geocoding in Python

Question

I am writing a Python script that passes a latitude and longitude to a module and performs a reverse geocode function to return the address of the location. I have been usi

Answer 1

I created a module to do exactly that: https://bitbucket.org/richardpenman/reverse_geocode

>>> import reverse_geocode 
>>> coordinates = (-37.81, 144.96), (31.76, 35.21)
>>> reverse_geocode.search(coordinates)
[{'city': 'Melbourne', 'code': 'AU', 'country': 'Australia'},
 {'city': 'Jerusalem', 'code': 'IL', 'country': 'Israel'}]

Internally it uses locations from the geonames database and a k-d tree to find the nearest neighbour.