From: Peter Song Date: 2010-03-20T03:29:41+09:00 Subject: Re: Geocoder Shandy Nantz wrote: > I am trying to write a script that uses the rails-geocoder gem to grab > the latitude and longitude so I can store those values in my own local > table, but am having trouble getting anything to work or to find any > decent documentation describing or even helping me accomplish what I > need done. Does anybody have any suggestions? I have found this example: > http://geocoder.rubyforge.org/ that seems pretty straight forward. I > have a list of cities and states and am just trying to loop through each > and get the lat lon values. Thanks, > > -S I think that geocoder is for full addresses. For just cities, you could use worldkit. Sending a request like so: http://brainoff.com/worldkit/geocoder/rest/?city=San+Diego,CA,US will get you a response like this with the lat & long for the city: -117.191848 32.751575 You have to make sure there are no spaces in the city field. So cycling through your list of cities, you'd make sure to concatenate multi word cities with a '+' before sending the request. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.