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GeoKit Updates
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
Posted in GeoKit, Ruby, Ruby on Rails
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GeoKit: UK Geocoding
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
Posted in GeoKit
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GeoKit: A Tiny Update
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
Posted in GeoKit, Open Source, Ruby, Ruby on Rails
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GeoKit: Going International?
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
Posted in GeoKit, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Uncategorized
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Who is doing Rails?
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
Posted in GeoKit, Ruby, Ruby on Rails
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GeoKit: More Syntactic Sugar
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
Posted in GeoKit, Open Source, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Uncategorized
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GeoKit: Improvements to distance_between and distance_to
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
Posted in GeoKit, Open Source, Ruby, Ruby on Rails
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