rgeo vs OpenCage Geocoder

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rgeo		OpenCage Geocoder
	Project
4	Mentions	-
992	Stars	11
0.2%	Growth	-
6.8	Activity	3.9
2 months ago	Latest Commit	9 months ago
Ruby	Language	Ruby
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" 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.

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.

Calling Ruby Methods in C: Avoid Memory Leaks
1 project | dev.to | 1 Feb 2023

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.
How to Parse Arguments in Your Ruby C Extension
2 projects | dev.to | 25 Jan 2023

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.
A logo for RGeo
3 projects | /r/ruby | 7 Jan 2022

- rgeo.info

OpenCage Geocoder

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

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

What are some alternatives?

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

Geocoder - Complete Ruby geocoding solution.

OpenCage Data Geocoding Module for Python - Python module to access the OpenCage geocoding API

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.

GeoNames - GeoNames API's wrapper (gem)

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

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

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