From: Michael Fellinger <m.fellinger@...>
Date: 2010-06-02T15:12:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Parsing geonames

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 2:57 PM, 12 34 <rubyforum@web.knobby.ws> wrote:
> 41.505928,-81.594582

iota ~ % irb
>> require 'geonames'
=> true
>> places = Geonames::WebService.find_nearby_place_name(41.505928, -81.594582)
=> [#<Geonames::Toponym:0x000000027dd158 @name="Little Italy",
@alternate_names=nil, @latitude=41.5089406, @longitude=-81.5981817,
@geoname_id="5161005", @country_code="US", @country_name="United
States", @feature_class="P", @feature_code="PPLX",
@feature_class_name=nil, @feature_code_name=nil, @population=nil,
@elevation=nil, @distance=0.4495>]
>> places.first.country_name
=> "United States"

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Michael Fellinger
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