I was working on Unthirsty last night when I came across an example of using a particular geocoding plugin. The addresses they were using were in the UK, and I was puzzled because last I checked the UK wasn’t available in any free geocoding API that I could find. So I tried out geocoding a pub in London and what do you know? Yahoo! came up with an accurate result with precision down to the address. So I tried a few more, and they all worked. This is great news, because it allows us to catalog happy hours in the motherland of pubs. I thought I’d share because apparently this has been around for a while and I didn’t even know about it. Anyone looking around for a free geocoding service for the UK, check out the Yahoo! Geocoding API. Also, if your Rails app needs geocoding support, check out Graticule, and see my snippet to make Graticule failover to multiple geocoding services.
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