From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-06-14T06:55:32+09:00
Subject: [ANN] Geocoding Goodness

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@segment7.net - http://blog.segment7.net
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