Geocoder
Complete Ruby geocoding solution. (by alexreisner)
rgeo
Geospatial data library for Ruby (by rgeo)
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Geocoder | rgeo | |
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4 | 4 | |
6,282 | 992 | |
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6.3 | 6.8 | |
16 days ago | 2 months ago | |
Ruby | Ruby | |
MIT License | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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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
rgeo
Posts with mentions or reviews of rgeo.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-25.
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Calling Ruby Methods in C: Avoid Memory Leaks
If you want to see a real-world example, I encourage you to read the RGeo codebase as we recently switched to going full rb_protect. We even have some functions, such as rgeo_convert_to_geos_geometry, that propagate this state for simpler usage. This function is a good place to start digging around.
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How to Parse Arguments in Your Ruby C Extension
In the RGeo lib, our first design choice was to have an API that only uses variadic length arguments. No keywords, no blocks. This can be very limiting, and we are now using the Primitive way to allow more convoluted arguments.
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A logo for RGeo
- rgeo.info
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Geocoder and rgeo 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
GeoNames - GeoNames API's wrapper (gem)
Geo::Coord - Simple yet useful Geo Coordinates class for Ruby
OpenCage Geocoder - Ruby client for the OpenCage geocoding API