Gdal. GeoCommons Maker! Find Closest Mashup Plugin with Ruby on Rails. Exclusive offer: get 50% off this eBook here Ruby on Rails Web Mashup Projects — Save 50% A step-by-step tutorial to building web mashups by Chang Sau Sheong | January 2009 | Open Source In this article by Chang Sau Sheong we will explore the 'Find closest' mashup plugin and map a fleet of kiosks in an online map. This mashup plugin allows your Rails website or application to have an additional feature that allows your users to find the location of the closest facility from a particular geographic location based on a specified search radius. Your company has just deployed 500 multi-purpose payment kiosks around the country, cash cows for the milking.
"Find a way to show our users where the nearest kiosks to him are, and directions to reach them! " What you have is a database of all the 500 locations where the kiosks are located, by their full address. Quickly gathering your wits, you penned down the following quick requirements: Sounds difficult? Google Maps Yahoo Maps Geocoder.us Geocoder.ca $. Assay depot: development blog » Blog Archive » Geocoding in Ruby. Geonames. GeoKit for Rails: home.