Stumbled upon geopy while looking through a fantastic list of OSS and Linux GIS tools.
Geopy lets me code a geocoder in 6 lines of python using the google maps API.
Example:
#!/usr/bin/python
from geopy import geocoders
import sys
g = geocoders.Google('ENTER YOUR API KEY HERE')
address = sys.argv[1]
place, (lat,lng) = g.geocode(address)
print "%s: %.5f, %.5f" % (place,lat,lng)
Then run from the command line like so:
# geoloc "500 Main St. 42367" 500 Main St, Powderly, KY 42367, USA: 37.23329, -87.16244
Nice!
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