googlemaps/google-maps-services-python
Google Maps Services Python
This project is a Python client library for interacting with Google Maps web services to retrieve geospatial, routing, and place data. It provides a programmatic interface for developers to access geocoding, elevation, time zone, and point-of-interest services.
The library implements automatic exponential backoff and request retries to handle intermittent server errors and rate limit exceedances. It manages communication through credential-based authentication and session-based connection pooling to reduce latency across repeated API calls.
The capability surface covers bidirectional geocoding and address validation, routing and transit planning via distance matrices, and the discovery of points of interest. Additionally, it includes utilities for fetching geographic data such as road-snapping information and generating parameterized URLs for static map images.
