Quick cli tool for encoding coordinates with Google's encoded polyline algorithm. Requires polyencode (pip install polyencode).

polyencode.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import sys
import gpolyencode

"""
polyencode.py
Encode list of x,y coordinates with Google's encoded polyline algorithm
see: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/utilities/polylinealgorithm

usage: python polyencode.py -72,41.9 -73,42.0 -74,42.1 -75,42.3

:returns string
"""

points = [(float(x), float(y)) for x, y in [point.split(',') for point in sys.argv[1:]]]
print gpolyencode.GPolyEncoder().encode(points).get('points')