Class: YahooGeocoder

Inherits:
Geocoder show all
Defined in:
lib/kamelopard/geocode.rb

Overview

Uses Yahoo's PlaceFinder geocoding service: developer.yahoo.com/geo/placefinder/guide/requests.html Google's would seem most obvious, but since it requires you to display results on a map, ... I didn't want to have to evaluate other possible restrictions. The argument to the constructor is a PlaceFinder API key, but testing suggests it's actually unnecessary

Instance Method Summary (collapse)

Constructor Details

- (YahooGeocoder) initialize(key)

A new instance of YahooGeocoder



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# File 'lib/kamelopard/geocode.rb', line 25

def initialize(key)
    @api_key = key
    @proto = 'http'
    @host = 'where.yahooapis.com'
    @path = '/geocode'
    @params = { 'appid' => @api_key, 'flags' => 'J' }
end

Instance Method Details

- (Object) lookup(address)

Returns an object built from the JSON result of the lookup, or an exception



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# File 'lib/kamelopard/geocode.rb', line 34

def lookup(address)
    # The argument can be a string, in which case PlaceFinder does the parsing
    # The argument can also be a hash, with several possible keys. See the PlaceFinder documentation for details
    # http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/placefinder/guide/requests.html
    http = Net::HTTP.new(@host)
    if address.kind_of? Hash then
        p = @params.merge address
    else
        p = @params.merge( { 'q' => address } )
    end
    q = p.map { |k,v| "#{ CGI.escape(k) }=#{ CGI.escape(v) }" }.join('&')
    u = URI::HTTP.build([nil, @host, nil, @path, q, nil])

    resp = Net::HTTP.get u
    parse_response resp
end

- (Object) parse_response(resp) 



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# File 'lib/kamelopard/geocode.rb', line 51

def parse_response(resp)
    d = JSON.parse(resp)
    raise d['ErrorMessage'] if d['Error'].to_i != 0
    d
end