Comments on: GeoKit: Going International?

By: a work on process » links for 2007-03-11

a work on process » links for 2007-03-11 — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 23:31:37 +0000

[...] 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 [...]

By: James Stewart

James Stewart — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 22:16:05 +0000

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/

By: joost

joost — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 20:21:17 +0000

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!

By: Steven Mohapi-Banks

Steven Mohapi-Banks — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 13:57:24 +0000

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

By: Saimon Moore

Saimon Moore — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:18:40 +0000

Hi Bill,

I definetely second this.

Looking forward to seeing this.

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