diff --git a/lib/python/heremaps/__init__.py b/lib/python/heremaps/__init__.py
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diff --git a/lib/python/heremaps/heremapsexceptions.py b/lib/python/heremaps/heremapsexceptions.py
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+import json
+
+class BadGeocodingParams(Exception):
+  def __init__(self, value):
+    self.value = value
+  def __str__(self):
+    return repr('Bad geocoding params: ' + json.dumps(value))
+
+class NoGeocodingParams(Exception):
+  def __str__(self):
+    return repr('No params for geocoding specified')
diff --git a/lib/python/heremaps/heremapsgeocoder.py b/lib/python/heremaps/heremapsgeocoder.py
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+import inspect
+import json
+import urllib
+
+from heremapsexceptions import BadGeocodingParams, NoGeocodingParams
+
+class Geocoder:
+    'A Here Maps Geocoder wrapper for python'
+
+    URL_GEOCODE_JSON = 'http://geocoder.cit.api.here.com/6.2/geocode.json'
+    MAX_RESULTS = 1
+
+    ADDRESS_PARAMS = [
+        'city',
+        'country',
+        'county',
+        'district',
+        'housenumber',
+        'postalcode',
+        'searchtext',
+        'state',
+        'street'
+        ]
+
+    ADMITTED_PARAMS = [
+        'additionaldata',
+        'app_id',
+        'app_code',
+        'bbox',
+        'countryfocus',
+        'gen',
+        'jsonattributes',
+        'jsoncallback',
+        'language',
+        'locationattributes',
+        'locationid',
+        'mapview',
+        'maxresults',
+        'pageinformation',
+        'politicalview',
+        'prox',
+        'strictlanguagemode'
+        ] + ADDRESS_PARAMS
+
+    app_id = ''
+    app_code = ''
+
+    def __init__(self, app_id, app_code):
+    self.app_id = app_id
+    self.app_code = app_code
+
+    def geocode(self, params):
+        if not set(params.keys()).issubset(set(self.ADDRESS_PARAMS)):
+            raise BadGeocodingParams(params)
+
+        request_params = {
+            'app_id' : self.app_id,
+            'app_code' : self.app_code,
+            'maxresults' : self.MAX_RESULTS,
+            'gen' : '9'
+            }
+        request_params.update(params)
+
+        encoded_request_params = urllib.urlencode(request_params)
+
+        response = json.load(
+            urllib.urlopen(self.URL_GEOCODE_JSON
+                + '?'
+                + encoded_request_params))
+
+        return response
+
+    def geocodeAddress(self,
+            searchtext=None,
+            city=None,
+            country=None,
+            county=None,
+            district=None,
+            housenumber=None,
+            postalcode=None,
+            state=None,
+            street=None):
+        frame = inspect.currentframe()
+        keys, _, _, values = inspect.getargvalues(frame)
+
+        iterableKeys = iter(keys)
+        next(iterableKeys)
+
+        params = {}
+        for key in iterableKeys:
+            if values[key]: params[key] = values[key]
+
+        if not params: raise NoGeocodingParams()
+
+        return self.geocode(params)
+
+    def extractLngLatFromResponse(response):
+        location = response['Response']['View'][0]['Result'][0]['Location']
+
+        longitude = location['DisplayPosition']['Longitude']
+        latitude = location['DisplayPosition']['Latitude']
+
+        return [longitude, latitude]