OfflineGeocoder

A gem for offline reverse geocoding. It uses data from the GeoNames project.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'offline_geocoder'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install offline_geocoder

Usage

require "offline_geocoder"

geocoder = OfflineGeocoder.new

results = geocoder.search(51.5214588, -0.1729636)

p results

The above code will output this:

{:lat=>51.51116, :lon=>-0.18426, :name=>"Bayswater", :admin1=>"England", :admin2=>"Greater London", :cc=>"GB", :country=>"United Kingdom"}

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release to create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.