KML で使用する住所のジオコーディング

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> 
<kml xmlns='http://earth.google.com/kml/2.2'>
  <Document>
    <Placemark>
      <description>1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA</description>
      <Point>
        <coordinates>-122.081783,37.423111,0</coordinates>
      </Point>
    </Placemark>
  </Document>
</kml>

import urllib
import xml.dom.minidom
import json 

def geocode(address, sensor=False):
 # This function queries the Google Maps API geocoder with an
 # address. It gets back a csv file, which it then parses and
 # returns a string with the longitude and latitude of the address.

 # This isn't an actual maps key, you'll have to get one yourself.
 # Sign up for one here: https://code.google.com/apis/console/
  mapsKey = 'abcdefgh'
  mapsUrl = 'https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address='
     
 # This joins the parts of the URL together into one string.
  url = ''.join([mapsUrl,urllib.quote(address),'&sensor=',str(sensor).lower()])
#'&key=',mapsKey])
  jsonOutput = str(urllib.urlopen(url).read ()) # get the response 
  # fix the output so that the json.loads function will handle it correctly
  jsonOutput=jsonOutput.replace ("\\n", "")
  result = json.loads(jsonOutput) # converts jsonOutput into a dictionary 
  # check status is ok i.e. we have results (don't want to get exceptions)
  if result['status'] != "OK": 
    return ""
  coordinates=result['results'][0]['geometry']['location'] # extract the geometry 
  return str(coordinates['lat'])+','+str(coordinates['lng'])

def createKML(address, fileName):
 # This function creates an XML document and adds the necessary
 # KML elements.

  kmlDoc = xml.dom.minidom.Document()
  
  kmlElement = kmlDoc.createElementNS('http://earth.google.com/kml/2.2','kml')

  kmlElement = kmlDoc.appendChild(kmlElement)

  documentElement = kmlDoc.createElement('Document')
  documentElement = kmlElement.appendChild(documentElement)

  placemarkElement = kmlDoc.createElement('Placemark')
  
  descriptionElement = kmlDoc.createElement('description')
  descriptionText = kmlDoc.createTextNode(address)
  descriptionElement.appendChild(descriptionText)
  placemarkElement.appendChild(descriptionElement)
  pointElement = kmlDoc.createElement('Point')
  placemarkElement.appendChild(pointElement)
  coorElement = kmlDoc.createElement('coordinates')

  # This geocodes the address and adds it to a  element.
  coordinates = geocode(address)
  coorElement.appendChild(kmlDoc.createTextNode(coordinates))
  pointElement.appendChild(coorElement)

  documentElement.appendChild(placemarkElement)

  # This writes the KML Document to a file.
  kmlFile = open(fileName, 'w')
  kmlFile.write(kmlDoc.toprettyxml(' '))  
  kmlFile.close()

if __name__ == '__main__':
  createKML('1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA', 'google.kml')