iceaddr 0.1.2

Look up information about Icelandic street addresses and postcodes

iceaddr

Look up Icelandic street addresses and postcodes

Python module to look up and get information about Icelandic street addresses and postcodes. The underlying data is taken from Staðfangaskrá (the National Icelandic Address Registry) maintained by Registers Iceland (CC-BY).

Examples

Look up address with postcode:

>>> from iceaddr import iceaddr_lookup
>>> a = iceaddr_lookup('Öldugata', number=4, postcode=101)
>>> pprint.PrettyPrinter().pprint(a)
[{'bokst': '',
  'byggd': 1,
  'heiti_nf': 'Öldugata',
  'heiti_tgf': 'Öldugötu',
  'hnitnum': 10017023,
  'husnr': 4,
  'landnr': 100570,
  'lat_wgs84': 64.1484874806941,
  'long_wgs84': -21.9452072913341,
  'postnr': 101,
  'serheiti': '',
  'stadur_nf': 'Reykjavík',
  'stadur_tgf': 'Reykjavík',
  'svaedi': 'Höfuðborgarsvæðið',
  'svfnr': 0,
  'tegund': 'Þéttbýli',
  'vidsk': '',
  'x_isn93': 356699.479545455,
  'y_isn93': 408411.468181818}]

Look up address with placename

>>> from iceaddr import iceaddr_lookup
>>> a = iceaddr_lookup('Öldugötu', number=4, placename='Reykjavík')
>>> pprint.PrettyPrinter().pprint(a)
[{'bokst': '',
  'byggd': 1,
  'heiti_nf': 'Öldugata',
  'heiti_tgf': 'Öldugötu',
  'hnitnum': 10017023,
  'husnr': 4,
  'landnr': 100570,
  'lat_wgs84': 64.1484874806941,
  'long_wgs84': -21.9452072913341,
  'postnr': 101,
  'serheiti': '',
  'stadur_nf': 'Reykjavík',
  'stadur_tgf': 'Reykjavík',
  'svaedi': 'Höfuðborgarsvæðið',
  'svfnr': 0,
  'tegund': 'Þéttbýli',
  'vidsk': '',
  'x_isn93': 356699.479545455,
  'y_isn93': 408411.468181818}]

Street names and place names can be provided in either nominative or dative case (e.g. both 'Öldugata' and 'Öldugötu' will work, as will both 'Selfoss' and 'Selfossi').

Keys

Key
bokst	House letter
byggd
heiti_nf	Street name (nominative case), e.g. 'Öldugata'
heiti_tgf	Street name (dative case), e.g. 'Öldugötu'
hnitnum
husnr	House number
landnr
lat_wgs84	Latitude (WGS84 coordinates)
long_wgs84	Longtitude (WGS84 coordinates)
postnr	Postcode (e.g. 101)
serheiti	Special name
stadur_nf	Placename (nominative case), e.g. 'Selfoss'
stadur_tgf	Placename (dative case), e.g. 'Selfossi'
svaedi	Area (e.g. 'Höfuðborgarsvæðið', 'Norðurland')
svfnr
tegund	Postcode (e.g. 101)
vidsk	Additional information
x_isn93	Coordinate X (ISN93)
y_isn93	Coordinate Y (ISN93)

Postcodes

>>> from iceaddr import postcodes_for_placename
>>> postcodes_for_placename('Kópavogur')
[200, 201, 202, 203]

>>> from iceaddr import postcodes
>>> postcodes[401]
{   'area': 'Vesturland og Vestfirðir', 
    'placename_nf': 'Ísafjörður', 
    'placename_tgf': 'Ísafirði', 
    'type': 'Dreifbýli' }

BSD License

Copyright (C) 2018 Sveinbjorn Thordarson

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