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Google HTTP geocoding class

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pass in the loc variable to g_code as a string. It doesn't do any sort of error-checking on the string however.

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  1. require 'net/http'
  2. require 'uri'
  3.  
  4. class Gcode
  5.  
  6.   def initialize
  7.     @g_url = "http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=" 
  8.     @output = "&output=csv"
  9.     @key = " [API KEY HERE] "
  10.   end
  11.  
  12.   def g_code(loc)
  13.     query = @g_url << loc << @output << @key
  14.     query.to_s
  15.     response = Net::HTTP.get_response URI.parse(query)
  16.     fields = response.body.split(',')
  17.     if fields[0] = 200
  18.       latlong = {"x" => fields[2], "y" => fields[3] }
  19.       return latlong
  20.     else
  21.       puts "sorry, address cannot be geocoded"
  22.     end
  23.   end
  24.  
  25. end

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