Geocoder: Display Maps and Find Places in Rails

The world is big. Seriously, I'd say it's really huge. Different countries, cities, various people, and cultures...but still, the internet connects us all and that's really cool. I can communicate with my friends who live a thousand miles away from me.

Because the world is huge, there are many different places that you may need to keep track of within your app. Luckily, there is a great solution to help you find locations by their coordinates, addresses, or even measuring distances between places and finding places nearby. All of this location-based work is called "geocoding". in Ruby, one geocoding solution is called Geocoder and that's our guest today.

In this app you will learn how to

• Integrate Geocoder into your Rails app
• Tweak Geocoder's settings
• Enable geocoding to be able to fetch coordinates based on the address
• Enable reverse geocoding to grab an address based on the coordinates
• Measure the distance between locations
• Add a static map to display the selected location
• Add a dynamic map to allow users to select a desired location
• Add the ability to find the location on the map based on coordinates

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by Ilya Bodrov-Krukowski via SitePoint