Complete Ruby geocoding solution

Look up street addresses, IP addresses,

and geographic coordinates

"Eiffel Tower"

place name or address → 48.8582, 2.2945

latitude, longitude

44.9817, -93.2783

latitude, longitude → 350 7th St N, Minneapolis, MN

street address

24.193.83.1

IP address → Brooklyn, NY, US

street address

Perform geographic queries using objects

Hotel.near(”Vancouver, Canada”)

find hotels near Vancouver

@event.nearbys

find other events near @event

@restaurant.distance_to(”Eiffel Tower”)

find distance from @restaurant to Eiffel Tower

@restaurant.bearing_to(”Eiffel Tower”)

find direction from @restaurant to Eiffel Tower

Geocoder::Calculations.geographic_center([

@brooklyn_bridge,

@chrysler_building,

@madison_square_garden])

find geographic center of multiple places

ActiveRecord Examples

(Mongoid and MongoMapper are very similar; please see README for details.)

Simple Geocoding by Street Address

Given a Venue model with known street address, automatically fetch coordinates after validation and store in latitude and longitude attributes:

# app/models/venue.rb

geocoded_by :address

after_validation :geocode