Some improvements to the error messages that are returned by the api.

[rails.git] / app / controllers / geocoder_controller.rb

diff --git a/app/controllers/geocoder_controller.rb b/app/controllers/geocoder_controller.rb
index a4c264a93791885454454684b7c71b0a7f70a83e..531cce4221df34b2d10155e3f872251113d9197c 100644 (file)
--- a/app/controllers/geocoder_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/geocoder_controller.rb
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ private
     response = fetch_xml("http://geocoder.ca/?geoit=XML&postal=#{escape_query(query)}")
 
     # parse the response
-    unless response.get_elements("geodata/error")
+    if response.get_elements("geodata/error").empty?
       results.push({:lat => response.get_text("geodata/latt").to_s,
                     :lon => response.get_text("geodata/longt").to_s,
                     :zoom => POSTCODE_ZOOM,
@@ -129,20 +129,54 @@ private
       type = named.attributes["info"].to_s.capitalize
       name = named.attributes["name"].to_s
       description = named.elements["description"].to_s
+
       if name.empty?
         prefix = ""
         name = type
       else
         prefix = "#{type} "
       end
+
       if place
         distance = format_distance(place.attributes["approxdistance"].to_i)
         direction = format_direction(place.attributes["direction"].to_i)
-        placename = place.attributes["name"].to_s
+        placename = format_name(place.attributes["name"].to_s)
         suffix = ", #{distance} #{direction} of #{placename}"
+
+        if place.attributes["rank"].to_i <= 30
+          parent = nil
+          parentrank = 0
+          parentscore = 0
+
+          place.elements.each("nearestplaces/named") do |nearest|
+            nearestrank = nearest.attributes["rank"].to_i
+            nearestscore = nearestrank / nearest.attributes["distance"].to_f
+
+            if nearestrank > 30 and
+               ( nearestscore > parentscore or
+                 ( nearestscore == parentscore and nearestrank > parentrank ) )
+              parent = nearest
+              parentrank = nearestrank
+              parentscore = nearestscore
+            end
+          end
+
+          if parent
+            parentname = format_name(parent.attributes["name"].to_s)
+
+            if  place.attributes["info"].to_s == "suburb"
+              suffix = "#{suffix}, #{parentname}"
+            else
+              parentdistance = format_distance(parent.attributes["approxdistance"].to_i)
+              parentdirection = format_direction(parent.attributes["direction"].to_i)
+              suffix = "#{suffix} (#{parentdistance} #{parentdirection} of #{parentname})"
+            end
+          end
+        end
       else
         suffix = ""
       end
+
       results.push({:lat => lat, :lon => lon, :zoom => zoom,
                     :prefix => prefix, :name => name, :suffix => suffix,
                     :description => description})
@@ -245,6 +279,10 @@ private
     return "west"
   end
 
+  def format_name(name)
+    return name.gsub(/( *\[[^\]]*\])*$/, "")
+  end
+
   def count_results(results)
     count = 0