placefinder

Yahoo! PlaceFinder is a geocoding webservice that converts street addresses and place names into geographic coordinates.

Use Yahoo! PlaceFinder within your ruby apps using this gem.

Synopsis

Install from RubyGems gem install placefinder

Require it in your files:

    require 'placefinder'

    placefinder = Placefinder::Base.new(:api_key => your_api_key)
    params = {:q => "Central Park, NY, US"}
    placefinder.get(params)

You are encourage to check the documentation to see the params of the API: http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/placefinder/guide/requests.html

Super easy! isn't ?

NOTE: The api_key is not a required field, you can start hitting their api without it.

Author

Adolfo Builes, [email protected]