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A Ruby on Rails gem that provides geocoding and distance calculations.

Geokit is a Rails gem that provides geocoding and distance calculations.

It provides various geocoding and geolocation options, including:

  • Distance calculations between two geographical points
  • Check whether a certain point is within certain rectangular bounds
  • Support of multiple geocoding data providers - Google, Yahoo and others
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Change value of request.remote_ip in Ruby on Rails

For test purposes I want to change the return value of request.remote_ip. While being on my development machine it returns always 127.0.0.1 as it should but I would like to give myself different fake IPs to test the correct behavior of my app…
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using geokit or other ruby gem to calculate the center of a series of geo coordinates

I've been using the geokit and geokit-rails gem for rails for awhile but one question I haven't found answered is how to find the calculated aggregate center for a collection of points. I know how to calculate the distance between two points, but…
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Geokit helper usage

I'm trying to localize my users throught their IP address. As the docs say, a class method called geocode_ip_address has been mixed into the ActionController::Base. But there must be something I'm missing. Do I have to define a filter like this…
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Using rails gem geokit sort by distance and pagination?

I come across a small issue in my app. I'm currently using geokit to find objects near a given location, and I use the sort_by_distance_from on the found set. See below: @find = Item.find(:all, :origin…
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Geokit and rails 3

I am using the geokit gem and plugin with rails 3. It seems there is a known issue with them, which can be seen here http://github.com/andre/geokit-rails/issues#issue/15 Now, I tried to follow the solution provided at the bottom. I pasted that…
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Geokit Rails distance and find(:all)

I have 2 questions regarding the gem 'geokit-rails' This is my sample code class Outlet < ActiveRecord::Base acts_as_mappable :lat_column_name => :address_latitude, :lng_column_name => :address_longitude, …
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How do I obtain a geonames API key

My apologies for the basic question, I am just starting to use Geonames. The Ruby geokit gem contains the following instruction for using Geonames: # To use this service either free or premium, you must register a key. # See…
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Geokit undefined method `acts_as_mappable' rails

I used the geokit-rails gem in my web application on my local machine i followed the steps from their github repo and it worked flawlessly on my local machine but once i deployed my app on openshift remote server. it doesn't seem to work. the…
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Geokit issue - "could not find generator"

I am trying to get started with Geokit, and I ran the install command and was greeted with the following: rails g geokit_rails:install Could not find generator geokit_rails:install. Any idea what's going on? I am so confused. bundle install works…
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Rails: Converting from MySQL to PostGres breaks Geokit Distance Calculations?

I recently switched my database from MySQL to PostGres. I also use GeoKit. When I started my app up with the new database already seeded, I get the following error: PGError: ERROR: function radians(character varying) does not exist LINE 1:…
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Geokit Rails - find all users who contain a point(location) in their range

Trying to understand how can I use Geokit Rails to get all users who covers a certain point with their coverage range. For example users A, B, C and D has a radius of i > 0 km. Now let's say I want to find all users who cover a selected point on map…
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Is mysql using my index or not, and can the performance of geokit be improved?

I'm using geokit (acts_as_mappable) in a rails application, and the performance of radial or bounds searches degrades considerably when there is a large number of models (I've tried with 1-2million but the problem no doubt kicks in earlier than…
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rails geokit - get travel/commute time

Is there a way to use geokit in rails to get the estimated travel time between two locations? Right now, I'm simply showing the distance away but I think a better approach would be to show '15 minutes away' -- gives it a more practical approach to…
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Using Rails 3 with Geokit-rails3 location gem

I am trying to use the geokit-rails3 gem for geolocation information in a rails application. I have a simple model: class Location < ActiveRecord::Base def lookup_ip_information(post_ip) ip = post_ip location = IpGeocoder.geocode(ip) …
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Learning geokit-rails3

I'm searching for complete explanations about how to use geokit-rails3. I've found loads for rails2 but not for rails3. Does any of you have a simple and complete tutorial about how to display a google map on Rails3, from A to Z ? Thanks a lot for…
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