Geocoder vs address_validate

Geocoder

Complete Ruby geocoding solution. (by alexreisner)

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address_validate

ruby wrapper for the USPS address validation api (by marybethlee)

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Geocoder		address_validate
	Project
4	Mentions	1
6,280	Stars	4
-	Growth	-
6.3	Activity	0.0
9 days ago	Latest Commit	almost 2 years ago
Ruby	Language	Ruby
MIT License	License	MIT License

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Geocoder

Posts with mentions or reviews of Geocoder. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-17.

Building a Web App Using Sinatra
2 projects | dev.to | 17 Feb 2021

Kickflip also takes advantage of the geocoder gem, which extends a Class and returns latitude and longitude from street addresses. With the geocoder gem, a user can find a Park near a location without the instance containing the specific string in it's address.
Address Database for Rails
2 projects | /r/rails | 1 Feb 2021

Geocoder

address_validate

Posts with mentions or reviews of address_validate. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-01.

Address Database for Rails
2 projects | /r/rails | 1 Feb 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Geocoder and address_validate you can also consider the following projects:

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.

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

GeoNames - GeoNames API's wrapper (gem)

rgeo - Geospatial data library for Ruby

Google Maps for Rails - Enables easy Google map + overlays creation in Ruby apps

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

OpenCage Geocoder - Ruby client for the OpenCage geocoding API

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

kickflip

ip2location-io-ruby - IP2Location.IO Ruby SDK allows user to query for an enriched data set based on IP address and provides WHOIS lookup api that helps users to obtain domain information.