gkhartman/wazeroutecalculator

Calculate actual route time and distance with Waze api

WazeRouteCalculator

Calculate actual route time and distance with Waze API.

Installation

pip install WazeRouteCalculator

Tested on Python 2 and 3.

Example

import WazeRouteCalculator

from_address = 'Budapest, Hungary'
to_address = 'Gyor, Hungary'
region = 'EU'
route = WazeRouteCalculator.WazeRouteCalculator(from_address, to_address, region)
route.calc_route_info()

python example.py
From: Budapest, Hungary - to: Gyor, Hungary
Time 69.27 minutes, distance 120.91 km.

calc_route_info returns a tuple (route_time, route_distance) in addition to logging.

from_address and to_address are required. region is optional, and defaults to "EU". region can be one of:

• EU (Europe)
• US or NA (North America)
• IL (Israel)

The Waze API has separate URLs for each region, and so identifying the correct region is crucial.

Multiple routes

You can get multiple routes using the route.calc_all_routes_info() function:

import WazeRouteCalculator

from_address = 'Budapest, Hungary'
to_address = 'Gyor, Hungary'
region = 'EU'
route = WazeRouteCalculator.WazeRouteCalculator(from_address, to_address, region)
route.calc_all_routes_info()

python example.py
From: Budapest, Hungary - to: Gyor, Hungary
Time 74.45 - 129.43 minutes, distance 120.91 - 130.08 km.

calc_all_routes_info takes an optional single parameter, the number of routes to fetch. Note that the Waze API may not return as many possibilities as requested. The function returns a dict: {'route_name1': (route_time1, route_distance1), 'route_name2': (route_time2, route_distance2), ...}.

No real time

You can pass real_time=False to calc_route_info or calc_all_routes_info to get the time estimate not including current conditions, but rather the average travel time for the current time. This would avoid something like traffic accidents or construction that is slowing down traffic abnormally on the day you run it from messing up the data. Note that this is not the same as travel time with no traffic at all, it is simply the usual traffic.

Intercity travel times only

Sometimes you may want to map travel times between cities and just see how long it takes to get from one to other. However, Waze's API will take you between two specific spots in the city, which can add to the time and distance, especially in larger cities.

You can pass stop_at_bounds=True to calc_route_info or calc_all_routes_info and it will ignore travel within the origin and destination cities.

import WazeRouteCalculator

from_address = 'Budapest, Hungary'
to_address = 'Gyor, Hungary'
region = 'EU'
route = WazeRouteCalculator.WazeRouteCalculator(from_address, to_address, region)
From: Budapest, Hungary - to: Gyor, Hungary

route.calc_route_info(stop_at_bounds=True)
Time 46.27 minutes, distance 95.29 km.
(46.266666666666666, 95.294)

route.calc_route_info()
Time 72.42 minutes, distance 121.33 km.
(72.41666666666667, 121.325)

Silence logging

Pass log_lvl=None to silence output and just get the return value:

import WazeRouteCalculator

from_address = 'Budapest, Hungary'
to_address = 'Gyor, Hungary'
route = WazeRouteCalculator.WazeRouteCalculator(from_address, to_address, log_lvl=None)
route_time, route_distance = route.calc_route_info()
print 'Time %.2f minutes, distance %.2f km.' % (route_time, route_distance)