Plugin details

his is a Location Based Services API for Ruby and for Ruby on Rails. It currently supports translation of MyGPSId address_ids into geocoded data. Queries will return Hpricot documents that you can use to find address elements in the return packet. You can also pass those Hpricot documents to a Location object and use it instead.

Websitehttp://github.com/peteonrails/gps_fu/tree/master Repositorygit://github.com/peteonrails/gps_fu.git Tags GPS location LicenseUnknown

Documentation

Install the plugin: 
ruby script/plugin install git://github.com/peteonrails/gps_fu.git

To turn an address id of "pete@work" into a geo-approximate location packet, do the following: 

@hpricot_doc = GPSFu::MyGPSId::Client.id_to_geocode("pete@work", :api_key=>"mykey")



# now you can find out approximately where I am: 

puts (@hpricot_doc.xml/"address/city").inner_html # "Bethesda"
puts (@hpricot_doc.xml/"address/country-code").inner_html # "US"



Or, if you'd rather not parse the Hpricot document, you can use the included Location class: 

@loc = Location.new(GPSFu::MyGPSId::Client.id_to_geocode("pete@work", :api_key=>"mykey"))

puts @loc.city
puts @loc.country_code
puts @loc.lat # latitude
puts @loc.lng # longitude
puts @loc.postal_code
puts @loc.postal_district
puts @loc.state

Further Documentation

There is currently no advanced documentation for this plugin.

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