Comments on: GeoKit: A Tiny Update

By: dudzjosh

dudzjosh — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 23:18:11 +0000

It seems this include problem is known already with rails.

http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/5371

I’m currently trying to think of a work around…

By: Xin

Xin — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 08:17:42 +0000

Bill, I would love it if GeoKit supported UK Geocoding.

Have you any thoughts how they might be implemented? Since only Google AJAX Search API supports detailed UK geocoding.

By: Bill Eisenhauer

Bill Eisenhauer — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:38:17 +0000

Well, the request is basically to add a distance converter. As I suggested in a comment that James hasn’t yet approved, its easy enough to write yourself a helper for this which does the conversion for you.

Its trivial enough for us to implement, so maybe we should just do it. Maybe we should just extend Number to have a to_miles and a to_kms where it just takes the base value and applies the appropriate formula.

By: Dan Kubb

Dan Kubb — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 09:02:42 +0000

Bill, in the post you referenced there's a comment about making the following possible:


  stops = BusStop.find(:all, :origin => ‘1319 Fulton St. East, Grand Rapids MI 49503′, :order => ‘distance’)
  distance_in_km = stops.first.distance(:km)
  distance_in_miles = stops.first.distance(:miles)

What do you think about this?