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A program which locates the International Space Station, maps it and determines your exact latitude and longitude. Run 'ISS Locator.py' in a terminal if you have Python 3 (you must have the json, urllib.request, webbrowser and geocoder modules installed).
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import json | |
import turtle | |
import urllib.request | |
import time | |
import webbrowser | |
import geocoder | |
url = "http://api.open-notify.org/astros.json" | |
response = urllib.request.urlopen(url) | |
result = json.loads(response.read()) | |
file = open("iss.txt", "w") | |
file.write("There are currently " + | |
# prints number of astronauts | |
str(result["number"]) + " astronauts on the ISS: \n\n") | |
people = result["people"] | |
for p in people: | |
file.write(p['name'] + " - on board" + "\n") | |
g = geocoder.ip('me') | |
file.write("\nYour current latitude , longitude is: " + str(g.latlng)) | |
file.close() | |
webbrowser.open("iss.txt") | |
screen = turtle.Screen() | |
screen.setup(1280, 720) | |
screen.setworldcoordinates(-180, -90, 180, 90) | |
screen.bgpic("images/map.gif") | |
screen.register_shape("images\iss.gif") | |
iss = turtle.Turtle() | |
iss.shape("images\iss.gif") | |
iss.setheading(45) | |
iss.penup() | |
while True: | |
url = "http://api.open-notify.org/iss-now.json" | |
response = urllib.request.urlopen(url) | |
result = json.loads(response.read()) | |
location = result["iss_position"] | |
lat = location['latitude'] | |
lon = location['longitude'] | |
lat = float(lat) | |
lon = float(lon) | |
print("\nLatitude: " + str(lat)) | |
print("\nLongitude: " + str(lon)) | |
iss.goto(lon, lat) | |
time.sleep(0.1) |
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