X-Git-Url: https://git.openstreetmap.org/rails.git/blobdiff_plain/344c5534ee328243ce8f5787e0ef6c3dcbf87b15..5b42c683f5e5b401a935182a9ea2e30f1a03c22e:/app/helpers/geocoder_helper.rb

diff --git a/app/helpers/geocoder_helper.rb b/app/helpers/geocoder_helper.rb
index 4c58d54dd..f5519ddc3 100644
--- a/app/helpers/geocoder_helper.rb
+++ b/app/helpers/geocoder_helper.rb
@@ -20,4 +20,24 @@ module GeocoderHelper
 
     return raw(html)
   end
+
+  def describe_location(lat, lon, zoom = nil, language = nil)
+    zoom = zoom || 14
+    language = language || request.user_preferred_languages.join(',')
+    url = "http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/reverse?lat=#{lat}&lon=#{lon}&zoom=#{zoom}&accept-language=#{language}"
+
+    begin
+      response = OSM::Timer.timeout(4) do
+        REXML::Document.new(Net::HTTP.get(URI.parse(url)))
+      end
+    rescue Exception
+      response = nil
+    end
+
+    if response and result = response.get_text("reversegeocode/result")
+      result.to_s
+    else
+      "#{number_with_precision(lat, :precision => 3)}, #{number_with_precision(lon, :precision => 3)}"
+    end
+  end
 end