Geocoder
Complete Ruby geocoding solution. (by alexreisner)
GeoNames
GeoNames API's wrapper (gem) (by WaKeMaTTa)
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| Geocoder | GeoNames | |
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| 4 | - | |
| 6,282 | 18 | |
| - | - | |
| 6.3 | 3.9 | |
| 12 days ago | 6 months ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| MIT 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.
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.
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.
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gem Geocoder - calculate coordinates, distances, search nearby
Geocoder gem allows you to preform different operations with coordinates.
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Anyone implementing or maintaining a Rails based application with geo-data processing or mapping libraries?
I've done some work recently using the geocoder gem (https://github.com/alexreisner/geocoder). Combine that with one of the available APIs and you can do quite a lot.
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Building a Web App Using Sinatra
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.
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Address Database for Rails
Geocoder
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 Geocoder and GeoNames 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
Google Maps for Rails - Enables easy Google map + overlays creation in Ruby apps
rgeo - Geospatial data library for Ruby
OpenCage Geocoder - Ruby client for the OpenCage geocoding API
Geo::Coord - Simple yet useful Geo Coordinates class for Ruby