[Ruby] [ANN] Geocoding Goodness

[Scott Laird]

Oooh.  Cool.  Do they work right with non-US addresses?


Scott

On 6/13/06, Eric Hodel <drbrain at segment7.net> wrote:
> I've implemented ruby bindings for the three major geocoding APIs as
> gems:
>
> Yahoo!      -- yahoo-geocode
> Google      -- google-geocode
> geocoder.us -- geocoder-us
>
> And as a bonus, you get a Yahoo! search gem to search either the web
> or for locations, yahoo-search.
>
> The bindings all have similar APIs, but return different objects
> depending upon what information the API reliably provides.  Yahoo!
> gives the most information, followed by Google, followed by geocoder.us.
>
> Yahoo!:
>
> http://dev.robotcoop.com/Libraries/yahoo-geocode/index.html
>
>    require 'rubygems'
>    require 'yahoo/geocode'
>
>    yg = Yahoo::Geocode.new application_id
>    locations = yg.locate '701 First Street, Sunnyvale, CA'
>    p location.first.coordinates
>
> (and searching for locations)
>
> http://dev.robotcoop.com/Libraries/yahoo-search/index.html
>
>    require 'rubygems'
>    require 'yahoo/local_search'
>
>    yls = Yahoo::LocalSearch.new application_id
>    results, = yls.locate 'pizza', 94306, 2
>    results.each do |location|
>      puts "#{location.title} at #{location.address}, #{location.city}"
>    end
>
> Google:
>
> http://dev.robotcoop.com/Libraries/google-geocode/index.html
>
>    require 'rubygems'
>    require 'google_geocode'
>
>    gg = GoogleGeocode.new application_id
>    location = gg.locate '1600 Amphitheater Pkwy, Mountain View, CA'
>    p location.coordinates
>
> geocoder.us:
>
> http://dev.robotcoop.com/Libraries/geocoder-us/index.html
>
>    require 'rubygems'
>    require 'geocoder_us'
>
>    gu = GeocoderUs.new 'username', 'password'
>    p gu.locate('1924 E Denny Way, Seattle, WA')
>
> --
> Eric Hodel - drbrain at segment7.net - http://blog.segment7.net
> This implementation is HODEL-HASH-9600 compliant
>
> http://trackmap.robotcoop.com
>
>
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