From: Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...>
Date: 2006-02-10T07:31:29+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Geocoder 0.1.0

On 2/8/06, Paul Smith <paul@cnt.org> wrote:
> Geocoder is a library for Ruby developers and a command-line utility
> that helps with converting street addresses (U.S. only for now, I'm
> afraid) to geographic coordinate pairs, specifically, latitude &
> longitude.
>
> http://rubyforge.org/projects/geocoder/
>
> Read the docs at:
>
> http://geocoder.rubyforge.org/
>
> The library is useful for developers who want to incorporate geocoding
> into their Ruby applications; the command-line utility, `geocode', is
> useful for one-offs, shell scripts, and non-Ruby apps.
>
> The library is a wrapper for various geocoding web services. The two
> services currently utilized are 1) Yahoo! Maps Geocoding API, and 2)
> geocoder.us (looking your way, GMaps!).

Cool. I'm getting this error on Win32, though..

E:\Temp>gem install geocoder-0.1.1.gem
Attempting local installation of 'geocoder-0.1.1.gem'
ERROR:  Error installing gem geocoder-0.1.1.gem[.gem]: Invalid
argument - test/mocks/csv?address=2038+damen+ave+chicago+il