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Tagged: acts_as_geocodable, GeoKit, graticule, ip translation, ruby on rails

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.

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4 Comments »

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  Hey,

  If I try the example of the Graticule Announcement:

  g = Graticule.service(:local_search_maps).new
  location = g.locate :street => ‘48 Leicester Square’, :locality => ‘London’, :country => ‘UK’
  location.coordinates #=> [51.510036, -0.130427]

  I get:

  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’

  it seems that the URL has no parameters

  Comment by Christoph — 27 March 2007 @ 3:16 pm

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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.

  Comment by James Stewart — 27 March 2007 @ 3:28 pm

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  I tried, but unfortunately mephisto spits out some errors when trying to post a comment :)

  Comment by Christoph — 27 March 2007 @ 4:19 pm

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  There was another new release last night and it works for me now.

  Comment by James Stewart — 28 March 2007 @ 8:11 am

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