tag:opensoul.org,2009:/2007/9/13/graticule-can-failover/changes Mephisto Drax 2007-09-13T00:35:44Z brandon tag:opensoul.org,2007-09-13:365:2 2007-09-13T00:57:34Z 2007-09-13T00:35:44Z <p><a href="http://graticule.rubyforge.org/">Graticule</a> has a new geocoder that simply calls other geocoders in succession until it gets a result.</p> <pre><code class="ruby">geocoder = Graticule.service(:multi).new( Graticule.service(:google).new(&quot;api_key&quot;), Graticule.service(:yahoo).new(&quot;api_key&quot;), ) geocoder.locate '49423' # &lt;= tries geocoders in succession</code></pre> <p>This can also be used in <a href="http://graticule.rubyforge.org/plugin.html">acts_as_geocodable</a> by simply setting <code>Geocode.geocoder</code> to the new multi-geocoder. See the <a href="http://graticule.rubyforge.org/graticule/classes/Graticule/Geocoder/Multi.html"><span class="caps">API</span> docs</a> for more information.</p> <p>Thanks to <a href="http://www.mattking.org/2007-04/graticule-failover-geocoding.html">Matt King</a> for some ideas on the implementation and <a href="http://stream.btucker.org/">Ben Tucker</a> for nudging me to implement it.</p> brandon tag:opensoul.org,2007-09-13:364:1 2007-09-13T00:34:55Z <p><a href="http://graticule.rubyforge.org/">Graticule</a> has a new geocoder that simply calls other geocoders in succession until it gets a result.</p> <pre><code class="ruby">geocoder = Graticule.service(:multi).new( Graticule.service(:google).new(&quot;api_key&quot;), Graticule.service(:yahoo).new(&quot;api_key&quot;), ) geocoder.locate '49423' # &lt;= tries geocoders in succession</code></pre> <p>This can also be used in <a href="http://graticule.rubyforge.org/plugin.html">acts_as_geocodable</a> by simply setting <code>Geocode.geocoder</code> to the new multi-geocoder. See the “API docs”: http://graticule.rubyforge.org/graticule/classes/Graticule/Geocoder/Multi.html for more information.</p> <p>Thanks to <a href="http://www.mattking.org/2007-04/graticule-failover-geocoding.html">Matt King</a> for some ideas on the implementation and <a href="http://stream.btucker.org/">Ben Tucker</a> for nudging me to implement it.</p>