Simple parser for latitude-longitude strings
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lat_lon_parser
Code for parsing lat-long coordinates in “various” formats, and for converting between lat-long formats (e.g. decimal degrees to degrees-minutes-seconds)
Note: perhaps it would be better to integrate this with a more full featured lib like:
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/LatLon23
But that one does not seem to support parsing unknown formats at this point – and it’s GPL, and perhaps a little more complex and structured than it needs to be.
Parsing Latitude and Longitude strings
Usage:
from lat_lon_parser import parse
In [12]: from lat_lon_parser import parse
In [13]: parse("45° 12.6' W")
Out[13]: -45.21
Formats supported:
Decimal degrees (easy):
23.43 -45.21
Decimal Degrees with quadrant:
23.43 N 45.21 W
Or with spelled out:
23.43 North 45.21 West
(note that all of the cardinal directions are not case-sensitive)
Degrees, decimal minutes: (now it starts getting tricky!):
23° 25.800' -45° 12.600'
or:
23 25.800' -45 12.600'
or:
23° 25.8' N 45° 12.6' West
Degrees, Minutes, Seconds: (really fun!!!):
23° 25' 48.0" -45° 12' 36.0"
or:
23d 25' 48.0" -45d 12' 36.0"
or:
23° 25' 48.0" North 45° 12' 36.0" S
or – lots of other combinations!
For a more complete list, see the tests
How it works:
This uses a pretty “stupid” algorithm – it assumes that all formats will be something like:
[-][space] degrees [separator] minutes [separator] seconds [separator] [N[orth]|S[outh|E[ast]|W[est]]
But that actually is pretty darn robust!
If you have other formats you want to be able to parse, please contribute tests! – And ideally a patch if the current code doesn’t work.
Conversion to Latitude Longitude Formats
Also included is code to convert to other formats used for latitude and longitude:
degrees
degrees minutes
degrees minutes seconds
Converting to numbers:
Functions for returning tuples of numbers:
>>> to_dec_deg(23, 12, 3) 23.200833333333332 >>> to_deg_min(34.1234) (34.0, 7.404) >>> to_deg_min_sec(34.1234) (34.0, 7, 24.24)
Converting to strings:
Functions for converting to various string formats:
>>> to_str_dec_deg(23, 12, 3) '23.200833°' >>> to_str_deg_min(2.345) "2° 20.700'" >>> to_str_deg_min_sec(-23.1234) '-23° 7\' 24.24"' >>> to_str(23.45) '23.450000°' >>> to_str(23, 45) "23° 45.000'" >>> to_str(23, 45, 6.7) '23° 45\' 6.70"'
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