CLI geocode with the Mapzen Search API bash

README.md

Small utility to geocode using the nice Mapzen Search geocoder.

This tool simply encodes the first argument and passes it to curl. The result is passed to jq to extract the first result and then using json2csv converts the array result into a couple of coordinates.

So using it is as easy as:

% geocode.sh "valencia"
"Valencia, Municipio Valencia, Venezuela",-68.00765,10.16202,0.947
% geocode.sh "valencia,spain"
"Valencia, Província de València, Spain",-0.37739,39.46975,0.956

Results will be:

• Complete name of the place
• Latitude
• Longitude
• Confidence of the result

Feel free to adapt, extend to your requirements.

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geocode.sh

#!/bin/sh

MAPZEN_API="YOUR_API_KEY"
TEXT=`python -c "import urllib, sys; print urllib.quote('$1')"`

curl -s "https://search.mapzen.com/v1/search?text=$TEXT&api_key=$MAPZEN_API" | \
jq -c '.features[0] | [.properties.label,.geometry.coordinates[0],.geometry.coordinates[1],.properties.confidence]' | \
json2csv -L -n