heycarsten-gcoder

= GCoder

Geocode stuff using the Google Maps Geocoding API and cache it through Tokyo Tyrant to increase speed and throughput. If you're looking for something hardcore you should check out GeoKit! [http://github.com/andre/geokit-gem]

== Bon Usage

require 'rubygems' require 'gcoder'

G = GCoder.connect( :tt_host => '127.0.0.1', :tt_port => 1234, :gmaps_api_key => 's3cr37s4uc3-df333dswddfsdf-332223', :append_query => 'Ontario Canada')

G['dundas and sorauren']

=> {:box=>

=> {:north=>43.6543396,

=> :south=>43.6480444,

=> :east=>-79.4421004,

=> :west=>-79.4483956},

=> :point=>{:longitude=>-79.445248, :latitude=>43.651192},

=> :accuracy=>7,

=> :country=>{:administrative_area=>"ON", :code=>"CA", :name=>"Canada"}}

== TODO

• Add dependencies to Gemspec
• Support for multiple results
• Better tests
• General betterment

== Copyright

Copyright (C) 2009 Carsten Nielsen. See LICENSE for details.