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