Google Maps for Rails vs GeoNames

Google Maps for Rails

Enables easy Google map + overlays creation in Ruby apps (by apneadiving)

Geolocation

Source Code

apneadiving.github.io

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GeoNames

GeoNames API's wrapper (gem) (by WaKeMaTTa)

Geolocation Ruby Gem Wrapper wrapper-api Geonames

Source Code

rubygems.org

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Google Maps for Rails		GeoNames
	Project
-	Mentions	-
2,264	Stars	18
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	4.2
about 6 years ago	Latest Commit	4 days ago
JavaScript	Language	Ruby
MIT License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Google Maps for Rails

Posts with mentions or reviews of Google Maps for Rails. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning Google Maps for Rails yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

GeoNames

Posts with mentions or reviews of GeoNames. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning GeoNames yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Google Maps for Rails and GeoNames you can also consider the following projects:

geoip - The Ruby gem for querying Maxmind.com's GeoIP database, which returns the geographic location of a server given its IP address

Geocoder - Complete Ruby geocoding solution.

Geokit - Official Geokit Gem. Geokit gem provides geocoding and distance/heading calculations. Pair with the geokit-rails plugin for full-fledged location-based app functionality.

OpenCage Geocoder - Ruby client for the OpenCage geocoding API

rgeo - Geospatial data library for Ruby

Geo::Coord - Simple yet useful Geo Coordinates class for Ruby

honua - A Ruby mapping library to stitch geographic map images based on map tiles provided by a rastered tile server.