Category Archives: GeoKit

GeoKit Updates

Posted on June 4, 2007 by Bill

I have added a few features and made a few bug fixes to GeoKit. These are as follows: [FEATURE] Added timeout support for geocoder web service calls [FEATURE] Added proxy support for geocoder web service calls [FEATURE] Added support for … Continue reading →

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GeoKit: UK Geocoding

Posted on March 20, 2007 by Bill

For those of you interested in UK Geocoding, I just saw this post come across the wire.  If you aren’t doing anything of high-volume or with high-availability needs, maybe this is a temporary answer for you. I’ve received quite a … Continue reading →

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GeoKit: A Tiny Update

Posted on March 12, 2007 by Bill

Its been a while since I tinkered with GeoKit, but when I read this post, I thought I’d take a look at a couple of things that were mentioned. James wrote that it would be nice to be able to … Continue reading →

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GeoKit: Going International?

Posted on February 22, 2007 by Bill

We have been asked whether GeoKit could be made to support UK addresses and this is something that we’re interested in doing.  I must admit that I was incompletely uninformed as to how different these addresses really are.  Just have … Continue reading →

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Who is doing Rails?

Posted on February 21, 2007 by Bill

The recent GeoKit publicity has caused an influx of new visitors to this blog. Now that the traffic is subsiding somewhat, I thought I’d take a look at the geography of Rails. It seems an appropriate tangential GeoKit topic. So … Continue reading →

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GeoKit: More Syntactic Sugar

Posted on February 18, 2007 by Bill

We just checked in code which improves the readability of GeoKit’s finders. Its quite obvious from the code, so just take a look at these examples: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 … Continue reading →

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GeoKit: Improvements to distance_between and distance_to

Posted on February 14, 2007 by Bill

Over at Earthcode, a request was made to enable the distance_between and distance_to methods to accept physical locations in pre-geocoded string form. I have added this improvement, so you can now do: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 # … Continue reading →

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