alexreisner/geocoder

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

A complete Ruby geocoding library supporting forward and reverse geocoding of addresses, coordinates, and IP addresses via 40+ external APIs. It integrates with ActiveRecord and Mongoid, provides geospatial queries like radius search, caching, and a command line interface.

Use cases

• convert street addresses to latitude and longitude in ruby
• reverse geocode coordinates to a street address
• look up the location of an ip address
• find records near a city or point with activerecord
• calculate distance and bearing between two places
• geocode model records automatically in rails
• batch geocode a list of addresses

When to choose

• you are building a Ruby or Rails app that needs address or IP geocoding
• you want a single library that works with many geocoding providers
• you need geospatial queries like near, distance_to, and bearing_to on your models
• you want result caching and proxy support built in

When to avoid

• your project is not in Ruby
• you need advanced GIS operations beyond basic geospatial queries
• you require guaranteed accuracy without evaluating the underlying geocoding APIs
• you need fully offline geocoding with no external API calls

Facets

library · maturity stable

geospatial http-client caching cli web-development developer-tools ruby jvm cli geocoding forward-geocoding reverse-geocoding ip-geolocation activerecord mongoid rails rack multi-api maps web-server

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