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Posted By: Brandon Keepers
Date: 2007-03-20 22:55
Summary: graticule 0.2.0
Project: Graticule
Graticule is an API that provides a common interface to popular geocoding services.
Graticule version 0.2.0 has been released with support for PostcodeAnywhere and Local Search Maps, both which support international addresses.
g = Graticule.service(:postcode_anywhere).new('account, 'license')
g.locate :locality => 'London', :country => 'UK'
Support was also added for geocoding IP addresses:
g = Graticule.service(:host_ip).new
g.locate '64.233.187.99'
More information available at:
http://rubyforge.org/projects/graticule
Feedback is welcome, especially from users outside the US. Sign up for the mailing list at:
http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/graticule-users
Changes:
0.2.0 (2007-03-17)
* changed city to locality, state to region, and zip to postal_code
* added support for PostcodeAnywhere
* added support for Local Search Maps (James Stewart)
* added IP-based geocoder
* moved geocoders to Graticule::Geocoder namespace
* fixed Google geocoder (again)
* made Yahoo geocoder consistent with others by returning 1 result
* geocoders can how take a Hash (:street, :locality, :region, :postal_code, :country)
or a Graticule::Location for the #locate call
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BY: Oshoma Momoh (osh)
DATE: 2007-12-18 06:50
SUBJECT: Ampersand Geocoding Problem I ran into some trouble using Graticule's google geocoder to geocode street addresses with ampersands in them. For instance, calling geocode for "Grace St & Mansfield Ave, Toronto, ON, CA" returns a US address, while "Grace St and Mansfield Ave, Toronto, ON, CA" works properly.
This apparently stems from a problem in encoding the ampersand within the URI, within Graticule::Geocode::Base.make_url.
Replacing this:
"#{URI.escape k.to_s}=#{URI.escape v.to_s}"
with this:
"#{CGI.escape k.to_s}=#{CGI.escape v.to_s}"
fixes the problem.
I'm not sure if this breaks encoding assumptions for other geocoders, since I'm not able to easily test them all.
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