Nominatim

A Ruby wrapper for the Nominatim API.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'nominatim'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install nominatim

Documentation

http://rdoc.info/gems/nominatim

Usage

places = Nominatim.search('San Francisco').limit(10).address_details(true)

for place in places
  puts "#{place.display_name} (#{place.type})"
end

puts "Found #{places.count} places."

Structured requests

places = Nominatim.search.city('San Antonio').country('Mexico').limit(10).address_details(true)

for place in places
  puts "#{place.display_name} (#{place.type})"
end

puts "Found #{places.count} places."

Nominatim::Search has the following methods to craft structures requests:

• street: accepts house number and street name as parameters
• city
• county
• state
• country
• postalcode

See http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim#Parameters

Configuration

Nominatim.configure do |config|
  config.email = '[email protected]'
  config.endpoint = 'http://open.mapquestapi.com/nominatim/v1'
end

Contributing

1. Fork the repository.
2. Create a topic branch.
3. Add specs for your unimplemented feature or bug fix.
4. Run bundle exec rake spec. If your specs pass, return to step 3.
5. Implement your feature or bug fix.
6. Run bundle exec rake spec. If your specs fail, return to step 5.
7. Run open coverage/index.html. If your changes are not completely covered by your tests, return to step 3.
8. Add, commit, and push your changes.
9. Submit a pull request.

Supported Ruby Versions

Nominatim is tested under 1.9.2 and 1.9.3.

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2012 Jakub Svehla

MIT License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.