Graticule and acts_as_geocodable updates
Graticule and acts_as_geocodable, which I wrote about here, has a new release with a couple of updates worthy of note. First up is the addition of new geocoders which provide better coverage of locations outside North America, and second is IP address to co-ordinates conversion similar to that in GeoKit.
Brandon has the lowdown, and I’ve updated the Comparison chart on the wiki.
This entry was posted by James Stewart on 27 March 2007 at 8:37 am, and is filled under Notes. Follow any responses to this post through RSS 2.0. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
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Hey,
If I try the example of the Graticule Announcement:
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NoMethodError: undefined method `[]‘ for nil:NilClass
from /var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/graticule-0.2.1/lib/graticule/geocoder/local_search_maps.rb:38:in `parse_response’
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Christoph – I see that problem too, but haven’t had a chance to track down the problem yet. You might like to comment over on Brandon’s blog as he’s the actual developer of the plugin, I just write about it from time to time.
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I tried, but unfortunately mephisto spits out some errors when trying to post a comment :)
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There was another new release last night and it works for me now.