Comments on: Spatial programming with Ruby on Rails

By: Jacob Lyles

Jacob Lyles — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:05:59 +0000

If you have SSH access to your domain with Dreamhost, you can install your own software for your account. I imagine that you can install PostgreSQL. The only problem is that you have to do it manually i.e. from source (But I doubt that´s a problem for you)

By: Spatial programming with Ruby on Rails at Freak Enterprises

Spatial programming with Ruby on Rails at Freak Enterprises — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 11:27:47 +0000

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By: LenZ

LenZ — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 05:42:01 +0000

JFYI, MySQL has started to improve the GIS support and has added several functions that are not using MBRs but precise operations instead, e.g. BUFFER, DIFFERENCE, DISTANCE, INTERSECTION, UNION. For more info, see http://www.planetmysql.org/entries/7897

By: Roman Alberto

Roman Alberto — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 02:05:42 +0000

nice site

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 23:42:59 +0000

@Xin - YM4R/Mapstraction is a great mapping plugin for doing points, lines, etc. and very easy to pick up too.

By: Xin

Xin — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 23:30:57 +0000

Check out http://geokit.rubyforge.org/.

It provides geocoding, location finders, and distance calculation in one cohesive package.

It appears quite simple to use.

I did try georuby and spatial adapter for a good couple of days, but it is too much for what I need. All I need is points.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 11:45:21 +0000

Excellent – looking forward to it. What would be nice is to pull all the Geocoders from various services/countries into a single plugin/library and make the switching between services transparent to the calling code.

Barry – would you have any info on this “hinted developer”?

By: Barry

Barry — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 05:29:34 +0000

Checkout http://www.geocoder.ca/ if you’re in Canada!
Just a hint, but I think someone wrote a Rails wrapper for the service that should be out this month.

By: guilhem

guilhem — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 10:58:57 +0000

I released a few weeks ago georuby, along with a PostGIS adapater for ActiveRecord ( http://rubyforge.org/projects/georuby/ ). They transparently provide to a Rails application some of the functionalities you are describing. Basically, the geometric columns are treated the same way as other base data type columns. There are still no automatically generated spatial query methods (like “within_radius” or “find_by_… ” with spatial operators instead of =) due to lack of time on my part but it should not be very hard to add.