====== Go Up ======

===== Description =====
Asks Google Maps for the coordinates of a scpecified position e.g. "Siegessäule Berlin" or "Saalbaustraße 7a 64283 Darmstadt" and displays it in Openstreetmap. Until now, this is much faster and complete than the builtin Openstreetmap search functionality.


===== Perl =====

<code>
#!/usr/bin/perl
use WWW::Mechanize;
use XML::XPath;

my ($config,$pid,$xid,$fifo,$socket,$url,$title,@cmd) = @ARGV;
if($fifo eq "") { die "No fifo"; };

my $url = "http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=@cmd&output=kml";

my $browser = WWW::Mechanize->new();
# download the json page:
    $browser->get( $url );
    my $content = $browser->content();


my $xp = XML::XPath->new($content);

my $nodeset = $xp->find('//coordinates');

my $lat;
my $lon;

foreach my $node ($nodeset->get_nodelist)
{
	my @coord = split(/,/, $node->string_value);
	$lon = @coord[0];
	$lat = @coord[1];
}
$dest = "http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=$lat&lon=$lon&zoom=14&layers=B000FTF";

qx(echo "uri $dest" >> $fifo);
</code>

==== Installation ====
Copy the above script to a directory of your choice and bind it for example with:
<code>
bind osm _ = spawn $XDG_DATA_HOME/uzbl/scripts/gmapsfind.pl
</code>


===== Doesn't seem to work =====

Something goes awry along the way, OSM is called with empty coordinate fields.

However, it appears that google also conveniently provides a json view to maps:
<code>
# curl "http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=Amsterdam&output=json"
</code>
produces the following output
<code>
{
  "name": "Amsterdam",
  "Status": {
    "code": 200,
    "request": "geocode"
  },
  "Placemark": [ {
    "id": "p1",
    "address": "Amsterdam, The Netherlands",
    "AddressDetails": {
   "Accuracy" : 4,
   "Country" : {
      "AdministrativeArea" : {
         "AdministrativeAreaName" : "North Holland",
         "Locality" : {
            "LocalityName" : "Amsterdam"
         }
      },
      "CountryName" : "The Netherlands",
      "CountryNameCode" : "NL"
   }
},
    "ExtendedData": {
      "LatLonBox": {
        "north": 52.4282634,
        "south": 52.3192708,
        "east": 5.0189941,
        "west": 4.7628753
      }
    },
    "Point": {
      "coordinates": [ 4.8909347, 52.3738007, 0 ]
    }
  } ]
}
</code>
Maybe this serves as a better starting point for scripts?