address-lookup

#!/usr/bin/php -q
<?php

/**
 * Returns tab-delimited latitude,longitude,formatted address for given address from Google Maps API
 * @author Warren Stevens (warbaby67@gmail.com)
 **/

$base = 'http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?';

if (count($argv) < 2)
   {
   print "usage: ".__FILE__." \"<city,state>\"\n";
   exit(64); # Command line usage error
   }

$result = json_decode(file_get_contents($base.'address='.urlencode($argv[1]).'&sensor=false'),true);

if ($result['status'] == 'ZERO_RESULTS' || count($result['results']) == 0)
   {
   print 'No results for "'.$argv[1].'"'."\n";
   exit(65); # Data format error
   }

$lat = $result['results'][0]['geometry']['location']['lat'];
$lng = $result['results'][0]['geometry']['location']['lat'];
$add = $result['results'][0]['formatted_address'];

print sprintf("%s\t%s\t%s\n", $lat,$lng,$add);

exit(0);