Google search with processing

dakshv22

Hey, How can I use Google search to find the longitude and latitude of a place. Say I fill in the location as a search query and then I use the web to find the geo location of that place. Is there any API existing which can do this? Or is there any way I can use the data at google maps in my application?

Any kind of help would be great :)

clankill3r

This is a good start:

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/

Be aware off:

This service is generally designed for geocoding static (known in advance) addresses for placement of application content on a map; this service is not designed to respond in real time to user input, for example. For dynamic geocoding (for example, within a user interface element), consult the documentation for the JavaScript API V3 Client Geocoder and/or the Google Play services Location APIs.

You might also like this for later. It gives the google street view image from a lat/lon: (If you request to much google will probably block you for a certain time, also making use of a API is better then this if many people are going to use it).

void setup() {
  size(640, 640);

  PImage img = getStreetViewImage(40.720032, -73.988354);
  image(img, 0, 0);
}



PImage getStreetViewImage(float lat, float lon) {
  int w = 640;
  int h = 640;
  int fov = 90;
  int heading = 235;
  int pitch = 10;
  boolean sensor = false;

  return loadImage("http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/streetview?size="+w+"x"+h+"&location="+lat+",%20"+lon+"&fov="+fov+"&heading="+heading+"&pitch="+pitch+"&sensor="+sensor, "jpg");
}

dakshv22

Thanks for the prompt reply.

Another problem that I faced was to access the gps data on an android application which is being built on processing. Any ideas on how to do that?

PhiLho

The second question is relatively distinct enough of the first to be worth of another thread, in the Android category (at least if you want to have a chance to get an answer...).

DennisEB

If I try the code from clankill3er I get the error

expecting RPAREN, found 'http'

.. can you give a working example?

PhiLho

The code formatter of the forum messes up with URLs, just replace the HTML link with the raw URL.

GoToLoop

I always use: "http://" + "blahblahblah.com"; =))