Geocoding using Geopy and Python

Question

I am trying to Geocode a CSV file that contains the name of the location and a parsed out address which includes Address number, Street name, city, zip, country. I want to use GEOPY and ArcGIS Geocodes through Geopy.I wanted to create a code that loops through my csv of 5000+ entries and gives me the latitude and longitude in separate columns in my CSV. I want to use ArcGIS Geocoding service through Geopy. Can anyone provide me with a code to get started? Thanks!

Here is my script:

import csv
from geopy.geocoders import ArcGIS


geolocator = ArcGIS()     # here some parameters are needed

with open('C:/Users/v-albaut/Desktop/Test_Geo.csv', 'rb') as csvinput:
    with open('output.csv', 'w') as csvoutput:
        output_fieldnames = ['Name','Address', 'Latitude', 'Longitude']
        writer = csv.DictWriter(csvoutput, delimiter=',', fieldnames=output_fieldnames)
        reader = csv.DictReader(csvinput)

        for row in reader:
            # here you have to replace the dict item by your csv column names
            query = ','.join(str(x) for x in (row['Name'], row['Address']))
            Address, (latitude, longitude) = geolocator.geocode(query)

            # here is the writing section
            output_row = {}
            output_row['Name'] = Name
            output_row['Address'] = Address
            output_row['Latitude'] = Latitude
            output_row['Longitude'] =Longitude
            writer.writerow(output_row)

Answer 1

I've been using this script to do some batch-geocoding from .csv. It requires that one column contain the complete text address that you wish to geocode, and that one column be titled 'UniqueID', which has a unique identifier for each item in the .csv. It will also print out a list of any addresses that it failed to geocode. It also does a quick check to see if the zip code might be incorrect/throwing off the geocoding:

def main(path, filename):
# path to where your .csv lives, and the name of the csv.
    import geopy
    from geopy.geocoders import ArcGIS
    import pandas as pd

    Target_Addresses = pd.read_csv(path+'\\'+filename)
    Target_Addresses['Lat'] = np.nan
    Target_Addresses['Long'] = np.nan
    Indexed_Targets = Target_Addresses.set_index('UniqueID')

    geolocator = ArcGIS() #some parameters here
    Fails = []
    for index, row in Indexed_Targets.iterrows():
        Address = row['Address']
        Result = geolocator.geocode(Address)
        if Result == None:
            Result = geolocator.geocode(Address[:-7])
            if Result == None:
                Fails.append[Address]
            else:
                Indexed_Targets.set_value(index, 'Lat', Result.latitude)
                Indexed_Targets.set_value(index, 'Long', Result.longitude)
        else:
            Indexed_Targets.set_value(index, 'Lat', Result.latitude)
            Indexed_Targets.set_value(index, 'Long', Result.longitude)
    for address in Fails:
        print address
    Indexed_Targets.to_csv(filename[:-4]+"_RESULTS.csv")

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main(path, filename) # whatever these are for you...

This will output a new csv with "_RESULTS" (e.g., an input of 'addresses.csv' will output 'addresses_RESULTS.csv') with two new columns for 'Lat' and 'Long'.