Playing around with freedesktop/python-geoclue

geoclue.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

# old, Python 2.x only :-(
# https://github.com/freedesktop/python-geoclue

from __future__ import print_function
import Geoclue
from datetime import datetime

print("Geoclue version %s" % Geoclue.VERSION)

dl = Geoclue.DiscoverLocation()
dl.init()
providers = dl.get_available_providers()

for provider in providers:
  pname = provider['name']
  print("\nTrying provider %s..." % pname)

  if provider['position']:   
    dl.set_position_provider(pname)
    position = dl.get_location_info()
    
    print("\nGot position from %s\n%s" % (pname, "-"*len(pname)))
    for k, v in position.items():
      if k.endswith('_timestamp'):
        v = datetime.fromtimestamp(v)
      if isinstance(v, float):
        v = '%.9g' % v
      print("%-25s%s" % (k+':',v))
    
  if provider['address'] and 'latitude' in position and 'longitude' in position:   
    dl.set_address_provider(pname)
    address = dl.reverse_position(position['latitude'], position['longitude'], 1000)

    if not address:
      print("\nGot blank address from %s\n" % pname)
    else:
      print("\nGot address from %s\n%s" % (pname, "-"*len(pname)))
      for k, v in address.items():
        if k.endswith('_timestamp'):
          v = datetime.fromtimestamp(v)
        print("%-25s%s" % (k+':',v))

as most of the examples are super outdated, so I wrote a golang dbus wrapper - quite handy to manage geoclue, https://github.com/maltegrosse/go-geoclue2 , see the /examples file