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Jeff, Do you have a rubyforge project for this?

On 2/8/06, Jeffrey Moss <jeff / opendbms.com> wrote:
>
> Hey Paul,
>
> I'm working on a port of the perl Geo::Coder libraries, so you can
> host the tiger line data locally and not rely on any web
> services. Results may differ from yahoo maps but should be identical
> to geocoder.us. I know I've been needing something like this, and I
> don't like using too many web services.
>
> No ETA yet though.
>
> -Jeff
>
> On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 07:16:41AM +0900, Paul Smith wrote:
> > Geocoder is a library for Ruby developers and a command-line utility
> > that helps with converting street addresses (U.S. only for now, I'm
> > afraid) to geographic coordinate pairs, specifically, latitude &
> > longitude.
> >
> > http://rubyforge.org/projects/geocoder/
> >
> > Read the docs at:
> >
> > http://geocoder.rubyforge.org/
> >
> > The library is useful for developers who want to incorporate geocoding
> > into their Ruby applications; the command-line utility, `geocode', is
> > useful for one-offs, shell scripts, and non-Ruby apps.
> >
> > The library is a wrapper for various geocoding web services. The two
> > services currently utilized are 1) Yahoo! Maps Geocoding API, and 2)
> > geocoder.us (looking your way, GMaps!).
> >
> > CLI example:
> >
> > $ geocode "1600 pennsylvania ave nw washington dc"
> > Latitude: 38.8987
> > Longitude: -77.037223
> > Address: 1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVE NW
> > City: WASHINGTON
> > State: DC
> > ZIP Code: 20502-0001
> >
> > -Paul
> >
> > --
> > Paul Smith
> > aim: thaislump
> > Center for Neighborhood Technology
> > Technology Director, Wireless Community Networks
> > Chicago IL, USA
> >
>
>

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