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Location Helper 4+
David Blishen
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- Free
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Description
Location Helper brings the power of Core Location to AppleScript. Location Helper has no interface, and runs in the background waiting for AppleScripts to ask it to do something.
You can use it to find your current location, altitude, geocode addresses, even reverse geocode your current location from your AppleScript scripts and applications.
Location Helper also contains all the functionality of our popular app JSON Helper, which allows you to parse JSON into AppleScript records, and convert AppleScript lists, records and strings into JSON.
What’s New
Version 1.03
Fixes the two geocoding commands which now both require a Google Geocoding API key.
This version also fixes a problem where no location was returned if the application had just launched.
Ratings and Reviews
Perfect
Exactly what I was looking for. I used this with a Google API key and Keyboard Maestro to create a macro for blog posts that enters my name, the date, and then prompts me to pick the best location string description for my current location.
It calls this, and then prompts from KM.
tell application "Location Helper"
set r to results of (reverse geocode location with API key "XXX")
set choices to ""
repeat with res in r
set choices to choices & (formatted_address of res) & return
end repeat
return choices
end tell
So versatile and easy
AppleScript should've offered this natively, but this service provides a really complete and versatile dictionary. It could use a little more documentation in each verb, parameters, etc, but it didn't take long to try a few things to see what form you need to provide for direct objects and such.
Perfect! THANK YOU FOR WRITING THIS.
Perfect. Does exactly what I need it to. 'Nuff said.
App Privacy
The developer, David Blishen, has not provided details about its privacy practices and handling of data to Apple. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
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Information
- Seller
- David Blishen
- Size
- 2.5 MB
- Category
- Developer Tools
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 10.10.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © David Blishen
- Price
- Free