[Ruby] [ANN] Geocoding Goodness

[Eric Hodel]

On Jun 13, 2006, at 3:04 PM, Scott Laird wrote:

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

Depends.  Yahoo! makes valiant attempts, attempting to locate 'yuck'  
gave me a city in China.  Some non-US addresses work with Google like  
"Tokyo" but I haven't tried very many.  I think geocoder.us is just  
the Tiger data which is US only.

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