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Geonames Ruby API

Ruby library for Geonames Web Services (http://www.geonames.org/export/)

The Geonames API has been forked and now is maintained here: https://github.com/elecnix/ruby-geonames

Inspired by the Geonames Java Client API library

Installing

Install from the command line 

# gem install geonames

Examples


Web 2.0 Mashup of Ruby Geonames / Wikipedia / Google Maps API

The following exercises several of the Geonames web services, full list of services listed here: http://www.geonames.org/export/

Load the the geonames API 

require 'geonames'
get list of places near by longitude/longitude location 
places_nearby = Geonames::WebService.find_nearby_place_name 43.900120387, -78.882869834
p places_nearby
get timezone for longitude/longitude location 
timezone = Geonames::WebService.timezone 43.900120387, -78.882869834
p timezone
get country code for longitude/longitude location 
country_code = Geonames::WebService.country_code 43.900120387, -78.882869834
p country_code
get country sub-division info for longitude/longitude location 
country_subdivision = Geonames::WebService.country_subdivision 43.900120387, -78.882869834
p country_subdivision
get postal codes for a given location 
postal_code_sc = Geonames::PostalCodeSearchCriteria.new
postal_code_sc.place_name = "Oshawa"
postal_codes = Geonames::WebService.postal_code_search postal_code_sc
p postal_codes
get nearby postal codes for a place name 
postal_code_sc = Geonames::PostalCodeSearchCriteria.new
postal_code_sc.place_name = "Oshawa"
postal_codes_nearby = Geonames::WebService.find_nearby_postal_codes postal_code_sc
p postal_codes_nearby

Downloads

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