Get Google Maps coordinates by many address from input file and write latitude and longitude of them in output files
- I was faced with lots of addresses and I challenged myself to get a quick resolution to get latitude and longitude coordinates of them. This is a simple solution to get this results. In my case, I copy the columns of output files in a spreadsheet to get my job done.
- Have a Google Cloud Account
- On Google Cloud, search for "maps" and enable Geocoding API, this API converts between addresses and geographic coordinates.
- Go to the Credentials menu and generate the API KEY of the Geocoding API. Put the value on the ".env" file. (keep safe the API KEY, do not share it with anyone)
- Put the addresses you want to discover the coordinates on "input-address.txt" file, line by line,
- To install the dependencies
npm i - To run app
node geo - If the connection was successfully with Google Maps, then the files "output-latitude.txt" and "output-longitude.txt" will be populated by results.