Changelog of the 0.9 series
0.99
2014-03-18
ADDED: GeocodeFarm geocoder added with support for geocoding and reverse geocoding. Contributed by Eric Palakovich Carr.
0.98.3
2014-03-07
ADDED: Queries are encoded as unicode in Python 2.7 by the geocoder. Contributed by Rocky Meza.
FIXED: YahooPlaceFinder count parameter fixed.
FIXED: Point.__repr__ fixed. Contributed by Paweł Mandera.
0.98.2
2014-02-28
ADDED: GoogleV3 now accepts an api_key parameter. Contributed by Andrea Tosatto.
CHANGED: GoogleV3’s deprecated protocol argument has been removed.
0.98.1
2014-02-22
FIXED: Mapquest geocoder did not use format_string in the creation of its queries. Contributed by Danny Finkelstein.
FIXED: Geocoders incorrectly raised a GeocoderTimedOut exception for all SSLError exceptions. Contributed by David Gilman.
0.98
2014-02-05
CHANGED: Geocoders’ geocode and reverse method return types have changed from None, a tuple, or a list of tuples, to None, a geopy.Location object, or a list of geopy.Location objects.
Location objects can be iterated over the same as the previous tuples for backwards compatibility, returning (address<String>, (latitude<float>, longitude<Float)).
geopy.Location objects also make returned data available as properties. Existing attributes are address, longitude, and latitude. Now available are the geocoder’s raw response as raw, and the location’s altitude as altitude.
0.97.1
2014-02-01
FIXED:YahooPlaceFinder geocoder authentication and response parsing fixed. Contributed by petergx.
ADDED: GoogleV3 geocoding now supports a components parameter, which is a filter for location criteria such as administrative area, country, etc. Contributed by crccheck.
0.97
2013-12-26
CHANGED: SSL connections are used by default for services with support. These geocoders accept a new ‘scheme’ argument in their init, which may be ‘https’ or ‘http’. Users desiring unencrypted connections must now specify ‘http’. Note that SSL connections’ certificates are not verified.
CHANGED: Geocoders accept a timeout argument which specifies the number of seconds to wait before raising a GeocoderTimedOut exception. This can be specified in the init, or specified one-off in each geocode or reverse call. There is now a default of 1 second.
CHANGED: geopy now supports Python 2 and Python 3 on a single codebase. Support for Python 2.5 is also dropped.
CHANGED: GoogleV3’s protocol argument is deprecated in favor of scheme.
ADDED: ESRI’s ArcGIS geocoder implemented. Contributed by Arsen Mamikonyan.
ADDED: Geocoders accept a proxies argument which specifies a proxy to route its geocoder requests through. It uses urllib, and accepts proxies in the form of a dictionary of {scheme: proxy address}, e.g., {“https”: “192.0.2.0”}. This was present but undocumented in 0.96.
ADDED: Geocoders check a new method, _geocoder_exception_handler, if defined, when the HTTP call to the geocoder’s service raises an exception. See LiveStreets for an example. Users can define or override this method.
ADDED: LiveStreets throws a GeocoderQuotaExceeded exception when appropriate.
ADDED: Point can parse a greater variety of coordinate strings. Contributed by nucflash.
FIXED: GeocodersDotUS now authenticates with an Authorization HTTP header. Contributed by Arsen Mamikonyan.
REMOVED: MediaWiki and SemanticMediaWiki geocoders removed.
REMOVED: Geohash module has been removed.
0.96.3
2013-12-26
ADDED: Documentation warning that the Vincenty distance implementation fails to converge for some valid points. Reported by mkeller-upb.
FIXED: Geocoder proxying fixed. Contributed by Marc-Olivier Titeux.
0.96.2
2013-11-20
FIXED: MANIFEST.in exclusions broke builds under buildout. Contributed by James Mills.
0.96.1
2013-10-31
FIXED: GoogleV3 returns None when the service returns an error status of ZERO_RESULTS. Contributed by Ian A Wilson.
0.96
2013-10-25
CHANGED: GoogleV3’s reverse geocoder now returns one result by default. Set exactly_one to False for a list.
CHANGED: GoogleV3 returns new exception types: geopy.geocoders.base.GQueryError -> geopy.exc.GeocoderQueryError geopy.geocoders.base.GeocoderResultError -> geopy.exc.GeocoderQueryError geopy.geocoders.base.GTooManyQueriesError -> geopy.exc.GeocoderQuotaExceeded
ADDED: OpenStreetMap Nominatim geocoder implemented. Contributed by Alessandro Pasotti.
ADDED: Yahoo! BOSS Geo PlaceFinder geocoder implemented. Contributed by jhmaddox and Philip Kimmey.
ADDED: SmartyStreets LiveAddress geocoder implemented. Contributed by Michael Whatcott.
ADDED: GeoNames geocoder is implements GeoNames’ new username requirement and api.geonames.org endpoint. Contributed by David Wilson and Benoit Grégoire.
ADDED: Bing geocoder supports user_location (Point) parameter. Bing will prefer results near the coordinates of user_location. Contributed by Ryan Nagle.
FIXED: GoogleV3.geocode_first() no longer throws exception on multiple results. Contributed by migajek.
FIXED: Unnecessary coercing to UTF-8 on Py3k. Contributed by akanouras.
FIXED: format_degrees now rounds minutes properly. Contributed by avdd.
FIXED: No longer warn if the optional dependency BeautifulSoup is not present.
FIXED: Miscellaneous inconsistent behavior and errors in geolocating.
REMOVED: Google V2 geocoder has been removed as its API was shutdown.
0.95.1
2013-03-22
FIXED: Fix DeprecationWarning showing for GoogleV2 even if it wasn’t being used (due to geopy.geocoders importing it). Contributed by Dave Arter.
CHANGED: GoogleV3.geocode “address” kwarg renamed to “string” to match Google.geocode to make updating easier.
FIXED: Geocoders now properly handle Unicode objects as input (previously would fail on non-ASCII characters due to wanting UTF-8 strings).
0.95
2013-03-12
ADDED: Google Geocoding API V3 support. Contributed by Jordan Bouvier (jbouvier). “google.Google()” should be replaced by “googlev3.GoogleV3()”, with no api_key.
Please see http://goo.gl/somDT for valid arguments.
CHANGED: setup.py updated to now automatically support Python 3+ (via 2to3 auto-compile option). Contributed by Feanil Patel.
0.94.2
2012-03-12
ADDED: MANIFEST.in so that LICENSE file gets included in dist packages (per req by Debian Python Module Team)
CHANGED: Yahoo geocoder uses new PlaceFinder API instead of outdated MapsService V1 API.
0.94.1
2011-03-24
ADDED: Test suite includes geocoding tests for the Google, Bing, Yahoo, GeocoderDotUS, and GeoNames geocoders.
CHANGED: output_format is deprecated in backends that used it.
FIXED: Bing geocoder now works properly. Updated to use the JSON return method rather than XML. output_format has always been ignored and is now deprecated.
FIXED: GeocoderDotUS now works properly. Updated to use more compact CSV return method rather than XMLRPC.
CHANGED: Yahoo geocoder now uses the “old” tuple return format (address, (lat, lon)) rather than the undocumented Location() object, for API consistency. (Object return values with rich data will be implemented in a future release.)
FIXED: Fixed “print” statement in Bing backend. No more print statements remain.
FIXED: In addition to checking for system json and simplejson, geopy now looks for a system-installed django (which bundles a copy of simplejson).
FIXED: Implement __cmp__ on Distance so that distance objects may be compared against one another.
CHANGED: Added __repr__ and __str__ to Distance
ADDED: Geocoder backend for MapQuest’s OpenMapQuest API, contributed by Shashwat Anand.
0.94
2010-03-07
ADDED: Partial test suite can now be run via “setup.py test”
FIXED: Converted “print” statements to logger calls to allow compatibility with WSGI.
FIXED: Google geocoder backend now throws more descriptive exceptions on certain failure statuses.
FIXED: Add simplejson to install_requires for setup. Use native (Python 2.6+/3.0+) json module if available.
FIXED: Distance calculations for values beyond 180/-180 and 90/-90 now wrap instead of raising an error.
FIXED: Fixed string representation of Point objects so that they don’t throw an exception.
FIXED: Fixed GreatCircleDistance ValueErrors due to floating point precision on extremely close points.
Changes between 0.93 (2006-10-08) and 2009-02-15
See https://github.com/geopy/geopy/compare/0451a051…ffebd5f3