simplyfied addPOIexec example

addPOIexec.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import urllib2
from xml.dom import minidom

values = {}
values["lat"] = 47.635
values["lon"] = 16.7

values["nearbyplace"] = "Unknown"
url = "http://ws.geonames.org/findNearbyPlaceName?lat=%s&lng=%s" % (values["lat"], values["lon"])
try:
	response = urllib2.urlopen(url)
except urllib2.URLError, e:
	pass
else:
	gnData = response.read()
	dom = minidom.parseString(gnData)
	if dom.getElementsByTagName('name'):
		name = dom.getElementsByTagName('name')[0].firstChild.data
		country = dom.getElementsByTagName('countryCode')[0].firstChild.data
		values["nearbyplace"] = "%s [%s]" % (name, country)

		print gnData
		print values
		print name
		print values["nearbyplace"]

output

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<geonames>
<geoname>
<toponymName>Fertőboz</toponymName>
<name>Fertőboz</name>
<lat>47.63638</lat>
<lng>16.70085</lng>
<geonameId>3052647</geonameId>
<countryCode>HU</countryCode>
<countryName>Hungary</countryName>
<fcl>P</fcl>
<fcode>PPL</fcode>
<distance>0.16601</distance>
</geoname>
</geonames>

{'lat': 47.635, 'lon': 16.7, 'nearbyplace': u'Fert\u0151boz [HU]'}
Fertőboz
Fertőboz [HU]