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GeocodeAddress gem to connect to Google Maps API

• Doc: http://sixarm.com/sixarm_ruby_geocode_address/doc
• Gem: http://rubygems.org/gems/sixarm_ruby_geocode_address
• Repo: http://github.com/sixarm/sixarm_ruby_geocode_address

Introduction

GeocodeAddress uses the Google Maps API to geocode an address string to a JSON result.

The address will cache as much as possible as it initializes and calls the Google Maps API.

For docs go to http://sixarm.com/sixarm_ruby_geocode_address/doc

Want to help? We're happy to get pull requests.

Install

Gem

To install this gem in your shell or terminal:

gem install sixarm_ruby_geocode_address

Gemfile

To add this gem to your Gemfile:

gem 'sixarm_ruby_geocode_address'

Require

To require the gem in your code:

require 'sixarm_ruby_geocode_address'

Examples

address = GeocodeAddress.new("1 Main St, San Francisco, CA 94111") address.href #=> "http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=1+Main+St,+San+Francisco,+CA+94111&sensor=false" address.get #=> ...calls the Google Maps API via Net::HTTP and returns a JSON-formatted string of results address.json #=> ...calls the Google Maps API via Net::HTTP and returns a JSON parse of results address.location #=> {"lat" => 37.7931108, "lng" => -122.3964898} address.lat #=> 37.7931108 address.lng #=> -122.3964898