From 18d0dde5d167dd4f385a6ba0609eb8ed884dc486 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nick Burch Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:32:34 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add Canadian geocoding, and attribute the geocoders we use --- app/controllers/geocoder_controller.rb | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++-- app/views/site/index.rhtml | 8 +++++++- public/stylesheets/site.css | 13 +++++++++++-- 3 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/app/controllers/geocoder_controller.rb b/app/controllers/geocoder_controller.rb index 22b1a8b3f..b04a71cdc 100644 --- a/app/controllers/geocoder_controller.rb +++ b/app/controllers/geocoder_controller.rb @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ class GeocoderController < ApplicationController @res_ary = [] if params[:query][:postcode] - postcode = params[:query][:postcode] + postcode = params[:query][:postcode].upcase escaped_postcode = postcode.sub(/\s/,'%20') if postcode.match(/(^\d{5}$)|(^\d{5}-\d{4}$)/) @@ -18,12 +18,16 @@ class GeocoderController < ApplicationController # (They have a non commerical use api) Net::HTTP.start('rpc.geocoder.us') do |http| resp = http.get("/service/csv?zip=#{postcode}") + if resp.body.match(/couldn't find this zip/) + redirect_to "/index.html?error=invalid_zip_code" + return + end data = resp.body.split(/, /) # lat,long,town,state,zip lat = data[0] lon = data[1] redirect_to "/index.html?lat=#{lat}&lon=#{lon}&zoom=14" end - elsif postcode.match(/^(\w{1,2}\d+\w?\s*\d\w\w)/) + elsif postcode.match(/^([A-Z]{1,2}\d+[A-Z]?\s*\d[A-Z]{2})/) # It matched our naive UK postcode regexp # Ask npemap to do a combined npemap + freethepostcode search Net::HTTP.start('www.npemap.org.uk') do |http| @@ -34,6 +38,20 @@ class GeocoderController < ApplicationController lon = data[4] redirect_to "/index.html?lat=#{lat}&lon=#{lon}&zoom=14" end + elsif postcode.match(/^[A-Z]\d[A-Z]\s*\d[A-Z]\d/) + # It's a canadian postcode + # Ask geocoder.ca (note - they have a per-day limit) + postcode = postcode.sub(/\s/,'') + Net::HTTP.start('geocoder.ca') do |http| + resp = http.get("?geoit=XML&postal=#{postcode}") + $stderr.print resp.body + $stderr.print resp.body.slice(/latt>.*?.*?.*?]/)[1] + lon = data_lon.split(/[<>]/)[1] + redirect_to "/index.html?lat=#{lat}&lon=#{lon}&zoom=14" + end else # Some other postcode / zip file redirect_to "/index.html?error=unknown_postcode_or_zip" diff --git a/app/views/site/index.rhtml b/app/views/site/index.rhtml index a066677ea..31b0a480e 100644 --- a/app/views/site/index.rhtml +++ b/app/views/site/index.rhtml @@ -6,8 +6,14 @@ <%= text_field 'query', 'place_name'%> <%= submit_tag 'Search' %> <%= end_form_tag %> + +
+ Geolocation provided by npemap.org.uk, + geocoder.us, geocoder.ca + and geonames.org +
-eg: SW15 6JH +eg: SW15 6JH, 95472 or H2L4C1
eg:Essen diff --git a/public/stylesheets/site.css b/public/stylesheets/site.css index 1a4b8df4c..d1834fbce 100644 --- a/public/stylesheets/site.css +++ b/public/stylesheets/site.css @@ -289,17 +289,26 @@ hides rule from IE5-Mac \*/ font-size: 12px; padding-top: 5px; padding-left: 14px; + padding-bottom: 15px; + width: 700px; } #placename-helper{ font-size: 9px; - position:relative; bottom:36px; left: 470px; + position:absolute; top:20px; left: 250px; color: gray; } #postcode-helper{ font-size: 9px; - position:relative; bottom:17px; left: 180px; + position:absolute; top:20px; left: 20px; + color: gray; +} + +#geocoder-attribution{ + font-size: 9px; + position:absolute; top:26px; left: 450px; + line-height: 8px; color: gray; } -- 2.43.2