Google maps gem

Hey Riley Hilliard I'm currently researching this. I need to provide information according to a users IP address, ideally more accurate than city location, not sure if this is possible though. I know I can pay for a database from MaxMind which will have more accurate results, still researching at the moment.

But I was wondering if you still used gmaps4rails or if you had found a better service for Ruby, any help to get me on the right track is much appreciated.

Cheers

I never found a good free alternative that was accurate, but maybe try some of these?

Cheers bud, will research :)

This seems to work pretty well for Geocoding an IP address: http://freegeoip.net/{format}/{ip_or_hostname} For the format you can specify csv, xml or json. I prefer json, but the formats up to you. All you need to do then is write some code to detect the IP address, then pass it into the API call to freegeoip EX: $detected_IP_addrss = however_you_want_to_detect_their_ip_address; $locationData = "http://freegeoip.net/json/".$detected_IP_addrss; Then just parse the return data and use whatever you want from it. freegeoip.net returns a lot of useful info like city, state, country, region, zip, lat, long. You could pass one of those into Google maps and have it drop a pin, center the map, or whatever.

Hmmm, the code formatter didnt work... $detected_IP_addrss = however_you_want_to_detect_their_ip_address; $locationData = "http://freegeoip.net/json/".$detected_IP_addrss;

Elizabeth Fawkes ^^ Just a heads up, there needs to be a way to be able to edit reply messages . . . ^^

Hi Riley Hilliard ! Great idea. :) You should already be able to do that, but let's see if the Dev Team has a similar feature in the works /cc Tommy Morgan .

Cheers Riley Hilliard, I've been looking at https://www.maxmind.com/en/home which so far has the most accurate data I've found and is constantly updated. I'll check out the freegeoip link and consider the pros and cons of each :)