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First Release of the Datasette gmap geocoding Enrichment

 I released my first Python Package last week! I've been using Datasette to analyze my QSO logs for several months . It's been a really useful tool since it's already setup with quite a bit of mapping fucntionality via various plugins . At the same time, the gang and I have been working with the Google Maps API and kml files to map the paths between amateur radio staions in our QSOs.  A few weeks ago, Simon Willison announced Datasette Enrichments . One of the first exampels was a geocoder (an enrichment that produces the longitude and latitude of an address) using opencage . This opened my eyes to the possibilities of taking the gang's and my original mapping utilities I mentioned above, and implementing them with a number of datasette enrichments and plugins. What was missing however, was a way to do this with Google Maps instead of opencage. Missing until last week that is! The gang and I worked through creating the google maps geocoding enrichment . Then, I worked...