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Comment by Saimon Moore

March 1, 2007 @ 4:18 am

Hi Bill,

I definetely second this.

Looking forward to seeing this.

You may want to look into the geonames.org service as well.

Comment by Steven Mohapi-Banks

March 5, 2007 @ 5:57 am

Hi Bill,

Anything to enable UK address support would be grand. In the short term, for anyone trying to geocode UK addresses, I’ve hacked together a simple solution using GMaps screen scraping at http://www.mobaconsulting.co.uk/2007/3/3/uk-address-geocoding-with-geokit

Might be useful for others.

Rgds,
Steve

Comment by joost

March 8, 2007 @ 12:21 pm

I’m looking for a AR-Model solution for multiple (international) addresses & validation of them (+international phone numbers). Not directly related to Geocoding.. but still..

Secondly I was wondering how the Geokit manages with > 1 million rows on MySQL. I created something similar to Geokit but my experience is that those queries are slow. One (still slow) solution is boundingboxing.. does Geokit support this?

Let me know!

Comment by James Stewart

March 11, 2007 @ 2:16 pm

I’ve just blogged about adding support for localsearchmaps.com to acts_as_locateable, and that may be one you’d like to look into. I’m not sure where its data comes from — maybe scraping google maps?

http://jystewart.net/process/2007/03/extending-acts_as_geocodable/

Pingback by a work on process » links for 2007-03-11

March 11, 2007 @ 3:31 pm

[…] Bill Eisenhauer » GeoKit: Going International? Bill is exploring adding UK addresses to the GeoKit geocoders (tags: geocoding geokit rubyonrails) By James Stewart and filed under Notes Return to a work on process […]

Comment by Saimon Moore

March 1, 2007 @ 4:18 am

Hi Bill,

I definetely second this.

Looking forward to seeing this.

You may want to look into the geonames.org service as well.

Comment by Steven Mohapi-Banks

March 5, 2007 @ 5:57 am

Hi Bill,

Anything to enable UK address support would be grand. In the short term, for anyone trying to geocode UK addresses, I’ve hacked together a simple solution using GMaps screen scraping at http://www.mobaconsulting.co.uk/2007/3/3/uk-address-geocoding-with-geokit

Might be useful for others.

Rgds,
Steve

Comment by joost

March 8, 2007 @ 12:21 pm

I’m looking for a AR-Model solution for multiple (international) addresses & validation of them (+international phone numbers). Not directly related to Geocoding.. but still..

Secondly I was wondering how the Geokit manages with > 1 million rows on MySQL. I created something similar to Geokit but my experience is that those queries are slow. One (still slow) solution is boundingboxing.. does Geokit support this?

Let me know!

Comment by James Stewart

March 11, 2007 @ 2:16 pm

I’ve just blogged about adding support for localsearchmaps.com to acts_as_locateable, and that may be one you’d like to look into. I’m not sure where its data comes from — maybe scraping google maps?

http://jystewart.net/process/2007/03/extending-acts_as_geocodable/

Pingback by a work on process » links for 2007-03-11

March 11, 2007 @ 3:31 pm

[…] Bill Eisenhauer » GeoKit: Going International? Bill is exploring adding UK addresses to the GeoKit geocoders (tags: geocoding geokit rubyonrails) By James Stewart and filed under Notes Return to a work on process […]