[Ruby] [ANN] Geocoding Goodness

[Cere Davis]

Very nice Eric!

On 6/13/06, Eric Hodel <drbrain at segment7.net> wrote:
>
> 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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> Eric Hodel - drbrain at segment7.net - http://blog.segment7.net
> This implementation is HODEL-HASH-9600 compliant
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