gistfile1.py

from simplejson import loads
from urllib2 import urlopen


def get_nearest_locations(lat, lng):
    url = 'http://maps.google.com/maps/api/geocode/json?latlng={},{}&sensor=true'
    output = loads("".join(map(lambda i: i.replace(r"\n\t ", "").strip(), 
                           urlopen(url.format(lat, lng)).readlines())))
    
    return {
      "original_output": output, 
      "extracted_info": map(lambda i: (i["formatted_address"], i["types"]), output["results"]),
    }

# For Example:
nlm = get_nearest_locations(23.750123, 90.368802)