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Use Pythonista's Location module to print the current street address
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get_street_address.py
import location, webbrowser #, time
def getLocation():
location.start_updates()
# time.sleep(1)
currLoc = location.get_location()
location.stop_updates() # stop GPS hardware ASAP to save battery
return currLoc
def getStreetAddress(loc = getLocation()):
return location.reverse_geocode(loc)[0]
street_address = '{Street}, {City}, {Country}'.format(**getStreetAddress())
print(street_address)
map_URL = 'http://maps.google.com?q=' + street_address.replace(' ', '+')
print(map_URL) # also try safari-http://
webbrowser.open(map_URL)
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