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POGeopy ValueError "Didn't find exactly one match" when geocoding
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copied!<p>In Django, I have been trying to get a search field to geocode a location and spit out a list from my db sorted by distance. So far everything works except when I search for a location that Google returns multiple results form such as "ann arbor, MI". I get the ValueError "Didn't find exactly one placemark! (Found 2.)" Here is my views.py</p> <pre><code>from django.shortcuts import render_to_response from models import CampSite from geopy import geocoders from django.contrib.gis.geos import * from django.contrib.gis.measure import D from campsites.forms import SearchForm from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect def results(request): query = request.GET['q'] g = geocoders.Google(resource='maps') location, (lat, lon) = g.geocode(query) pnt = fromstr("POINT(%s %s)" % (lon, lat)) distance_from_point = {'mi':'2000'} results = CampSite.objects.filter(lonlat__distance_lte=(pnt,D(**distance_from_point))).distance(pnt).order_by('distance') return render_to_response('results.html',{'location': location, 'lat': lat, 'lon': lon, 'results':results}) </code></pre> <hr> <p>The common solution I found online was to change</p> <p><code>location, (lat, lon) = g.geocode(query)</code> </p> <hr> <p>to </p> <hr> <p><code>location, (lat, lon) = g.geocode(query, exactly_one=False)</code></p> <p>However, this produced the new ValueError "String or unicode input unrecognized as WKT EWKT, and HEXEWKB."</p> <p>This is my first django project I'm doing outside of tutorials, so thankyou for being gentile. </p>

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