Looking up coordinates with google-geocode gem in Ruby
08 Nov 2008
ruby
“google-geocode” helps you to look up the coordinates of a given address.
Installing google-geocode
sudo gem install google-geocodeGetting your google maps api key: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/signup.html
Here is the simple code to fetch coordinates of a given address.
#!/usr/bin/ruby
require 'rubygems'
require 'google_geocode'
api_key = 'yourapikey'
address = "34357 Istanbul Dolmabahce"
begin
gc = GoogleGeocode.new(api_key)
location = gc.locate(address)
puts "Adress queried: #{address}"
puts "---------------------------------------"
puts "Fetched results:"
puts "latitude: #{location.latitude}"
puts "longitude: #{location.longitude}"
puts "Coordinates lat,lon: #{location.coordinates}"
puts "Adress fetched: #{location.address}"
rescue GoogleGeocode::KeyError => e
puts "GoogleGeocode::KeyError => #{e.message}"
rescue GoogleGeocode::AddressError => e
puts "GoogleGeocode::AddressError => #{e.message}"
rescue GoogleGeocode::Error => e
puts "GoogleGeocode::Error => #{e.message}"
rescue Exception => e
puts "Exception => #{$!}"
end