Graticule can failover

September 13, 2007 code 1 min read

Graticule has a new geocoder that simply calls other geocoders in succession until it gets a result.

geocoder = Graticule.service(:multi).new(
  Graticule.service(:google).new("api_key"),
  Graticule.service(:yahoo).new("api_key"),
)
geocoder.locate '49423' # <= tries geocoders in succession

This can also be used in acts_as_geocodable by simply setting Geocode.geocoder to the new multi-geocoder. See the API docs for more information.

Thanks to Matt King for some ideas on the implementation and Ben Tucker for nudging me to implement it.

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