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Python script to get lat/lon of all towns in England
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#Needs Python Wikipedia Robot Framework | |
import wikipedia | |
import sys | |
p=wikipedia.Page('en','List_of_towns_in_England') | |
town_pages=p.linkedPages()[7:-9] | |
class LatLonError(ValueError): | |
pass | |
def infobox_latlon(info): | |
for param in info: | |
if param.startswith('latitude'): | |
lat = float(param.split('=')[1].strip()) | |
elif param.startswith('longitude'): | |
lon = float(param.split('=')[1].strip()) | |
try: | |
return lat,lon | |
except NameError: | |
raise LatLonError("Could not get Lat/Lon") | |
for town_page in town_pages: | |
if town_page.isRedirectPage(): | |
town_page = town_page.getRedirectTarget() | |
templates = dict(town_page.templatesWithParams()) | |
try: | |
place_info = templates['Infobox UK place'] | |
lat, lon = infobox_latlon(place_info) | |
print lat, lon, town_page.titleForFilename() | |
except (LatLonError, KeyError): | |
sys.stderr.write('Could not parse %s\n' % town_page.titleForFilename()) | |
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