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Graticule is a geocoding API for looking up address coordinates and performing distance calculations, supporting many popular APIs.

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= Graticule
 
Graticule is a geocoding API for looking up address coordinates.  It supports many popular APIs, including Yahoo, Google, Geocoder.ca, Geocoder.us, PostcodeAnywhere and MetaCarta.
 
= Usage
 
  require 'rubygems'
  require 'graticule'
  geocoder = Graticule.service(:google).new "api_key"
  location = geocoder.locate "61 East 9th Street, Holland, MI"
 
= Distance Calculation
 
Graticule includes 3 different distance formulas, Spherical (simplest but least accurate), Vincenty (most accurate and most complicated), and Haversine (somewhere inbetween).
 
  geocoder.locate("Holland, MI").distance_to(geocoder.locate("Chicago, IL"))
  #=> 101.997458788177
  
= Command Line
 
Graticule includes a command line interface (CLI).
 
  $ geocode -s yahoo -a yahookey Washington, DC
  Washington, DC US
  latitude: 38.895222, longitude: -77.036758
 
= Source
 
The source code for Graticule is available at http://github.com/collectiveidea/graticule. Patches and bug reports are welcome at http://collectiveidea.lighthouseapp.com/projects/20262-graticule