cannot import name GoogleMaps in python

Question

I am using the code below to get the latitude & longitude of an address:

from googlemaps import GoogleMaps
gmaps = GoogleMaps(api_key)
address = 'Constitution Ave NW & 10th St NW, Washington, DC'
lat, lng = gmaps.address_to_latlng(address)
print lat, lng

but am getting the error below

File "C:/Users/Pavan/PycharmProjects/MGCW/latlong6.py", line 1, in <module>
    from googlemaps import GoogleMaps
ImportError: cannot import name GoogleMaps

I have seen another question similar to this, but the solution didn't work for me.

Scott · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-29 07:12:41Z

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Use geopy instead, no need for api-key.

From their example:

from geopy.geocoders import Nominatim
geolocator = Nominatim()
location = geolocator.geocode("175 5th Avenue NYC")
print(location.address)
print((location.latitude, location.longitude))

prints:

Flatiron Building, 175, 5th Avenue, Flatiron, New York, NYC, New York, 10010,  United States of America
(40.7410861, -73.9896297241625)

answered May 29, 2015 at 7:12

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Pavan Chakravarthy Over a year ago

this code is working fine for single location & when am passing multiple locations am getting all latitudes & longitudes same..

Pavan Chakravarthy Over a year ago

this seems to work now.. anyhow I need to locate 44,000 locations.. will try to put them in a file & will pass them..

Scott Over a year ago

@PavanChakravarthy I'm not too familiar with the library but they do seem to have nice documentation geopy.readthedocs.org/en/1.10.0

Pavan Chakravarthy Over a year ago

as expected the above code worked fine for few locations & if it couldnt find the coordinates it would fail other locations also..

Scott Over a year ago

@PavanChakravarthy Yes geopy seems to not be able to handle some types of addresses. Check out my other answer using photon.komoot.de.

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Andrzej Pronobis · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-29 07:06:29Z

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I think what you are looking for is the Client class not GoogleMaps.

If you want to call it GoogleMaps import it as follows:

from googlemaps import Client as GoogleMaps

answered May 29, 2015 at 7:06

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Pavan Chakravarthy Over a year ago

did that & now am getting this error File "C:/Users/Pavan/PycharmProjects/MGCW/latlong6.py", line 2, in <module> gmaps = GoogleMaps(api_key) NameError: name 'api_key' is not defined

Scott Over a year ago

@PavanChakravarthy that's because you need an api. Use geopy instead.

Andrzej Pronobis Over a year ago

Did you define the name api_key? It seems that you didn't.

Andrzej Pronobis Over a year ago

Check this out for a description of the API key: github.com/googlemaps/google-maps-services-python#api-keys

Scott · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-29 08:09:03Z

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Another option is parsing the json from photon.komoot.de. Example:

import requests, json

url = 'http://photon.komoot.de/api/?q='
addresses = ['175 5th Avenue NYC', 'Constitution Ave NW & 10th St NW, Washington, DC']

for address in addresses:
    resp = requests.get(url=url+address)
    data = json.loads(resp.text)
    print data['features'][0]['geometry']['coordinates']

prints:

[-76.1438449, 40.229888]
[-77.046567, 38.8924587]

These are given in lon, lat. The second one is a bit off by about 1 mile. Seems street intersections are difficult.

answered May 29, 2015 at 8:09

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Pavan Chakravarthy · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-02 13:29:36Z

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I could write a code for multiple address but it never worked.. Finally found this website which could generate geocodes in bulk.. I think it may be useful to someone looking for bulk geocodes.. It also has reverse geocoding..

http://www.findlatitudeandlongitude.com/batch-geocode/#.VW2KRs-qqkq

answered Jun 2, 2015 at 13:29

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Gidi9 · Accepted Answer · 2019-10-15 08:42:57Z

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Andrzej's answer worked for me!

from googlemaps import Client as GoogleMaps

Just to add to what he said, you will need to

Click on the API Library in your Google Cloud Platform console
Search for "Geolocation API"
Click on "Enable"

If you create an API key before enabling this, you will also get that error. I had the same issue.

Under the "Credentials" tab, you will then see the option to create or copy your API key.

answered Oct 15, 2019 at 8:42

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Yajash Jhamb · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-25 11:48:18Z

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pip install -U googlemaps

use this statement to install and use googlemaps api in Python

answered Mar 25, 2018 at 11:48

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Mostafa Ghadimi Over a year ago

Your answer is not true. The problem is from the package, not the installation!

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