• Google cloud api provides access to google map data
  • you need to create a google cloud project
  • link to a credit card (it is free for under free tier, and it also have some credit for testing)
  • create a key, which use to access google api from your app or program

Google has many access point for different map data,

• 3d tile: allow access google 3d map data
• geocode: allow convert your location name to gps

  import requests
  g_api = "YOURKEYTEXT"
   
  def geocode(address, api_key="", info= 0):
      headers = {'User-Agent': "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/42.0.2311.135 Safari/537.36 Edge/12.246"}
      if api_key == "":
          api_key = g_api
      geocoding_endpoint = 'https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json'
      elevation_endpoint = 'https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/elevation/json'
      params = {
          'address': address,
          'key': api_key
      }
   
      geocoding_response = requests.get(geocoding_endpoint, params=params, headers=headers)
      geocoding_data = geocoding_response.json()
   
      # Extract the GPS coordinates
      if geocoding_data['status'] == 'OK':
          location = geocoding_data['results'][0]['geometry']['location']
          if info:
              print('''
  #=======================================
  #  {0}
  #======================================='''.format(address))
              pprint.pprint(geocoding_data['results'][0])
          latitude = location['lat']
          longitude = location['lng']
   
          elevation_params = {
              'locations': f'{latitude},{longitude}',
              'key': api_key
          }
          elevation_response = requests.get(elevation_endpoint, params=elevation_params, headers=headers)
          elevation_data = elevation_response.json()
          if elevation_data['status'] == 'OK':
              elevation = elevation_data['results'][0]['elevation']
              if info:
                  pprint.pprint(elevation_data['results'][0])
              return latitude, longitude, elevation
          else:
              return latitude, longitude, None
      else:
          return None