Class: AddressStandardization::GoogleMaps::Address

Inherits:
AbstractAddress show all
Defined in:
lib/address_standardization/google_maps.rb

Instance Attribute Summary

Attributes inherited from AbstractAddress

#address_info

Class Method Summary collapse

Methods inherited from AbstractAddress

#==, #initialize, #method_missing, #validate_keys

Methods included from ClassLevelInheritableAttributes

#cattr_inheritable, #inherited

Constructor Details

This class inherits a constructor from AddressStandardization::AbstractAddress

Dynamic Method Handling

This class handles dynamic methods through the method_missing method in the class AddressStandardization::AbstractAddress

Class Method Details

.standardize(address_info) ⇒ Object

much of this code was borrowed from GeoKit, thanks…



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# File 'lib/address_standardization/google_maps.rb', line 15

def standardize(address_info)
  raise "API key not specified.\nCall AddressStandardization::GoogleMaps.api_key = '...' before you call .standardize()." unless GoogleMaps.api_key
  
  address_str = "%s, %s, %s %s" % [
    address_info[:street],
    address_info[:city],
    (address_info[:state] || address_info[:province]),
    address_info[:zip]
  ]
  url = "http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=#{address_str.url_escape}&output=xml&key=#{GoogleMaps.api_key}&oe=utf-8"
  # puts url
  uri = URI.parse(url)
  res = Net::HTTP.get_response(uri)
  unless res.is_a?(Net::HTTPSuccess)
    File.open("test.xml", "w") {|f| f.write("(no response or response was unsuccessful)") }
    return nil 
  end
  xml = res.body
  #File.open("test.xml", "w") {|f| f.write(xml) }
  xml = Hpricot::XML(xml)
  
  if xml.at("//kml/Response/Status/code").inner_text == "200"
    addr = {}
    
    addr[:street] = get_inner_text(xml, '//ThoroughfareName')
    addr[:city] = get_inner_text(xml, '//LocalityName')
    addr[:province] = addr[:state] = get_inner_text(xml, '//AdministrativeAreaName')
    addr[:zip] = addr[:postalcode] = get_inner_text(xml, '//PostalCodeNumber')
    addr[:country] = get_inner_text(xml, '//CountryName')
    
    new(addr)
  else
    #File.open("test.xml", "w") {|f| f.write("(no response or response was unsuccessful)") }
    nil
  end
end