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GeoNames JSON API wrapper
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GeoNames JSON API wrapper

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/manveru/geonames
• Owner: manveru
• Created: 2010-06-04T15:15:29.000Z (over 14 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2014-01-08T20:37:35.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-05T18:51:22.939Z (about 2 months ago)
• Language: Ruby
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• Stars: 14
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 4
• Open Issues: 0
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# GeoNames API wrapper

The GeoNames geographical database covers all countries and contains over eight

million placenames that are available for download free of charge.

http://www.geonames.org/

## Dependencies

This library depends on addressable, you can install it with

`gem install addressable`.

## Usage

Instantiate the API and make a query:

    >> api = GeoNames.new

    >> api.ocean(lat: 0, lng: 0)

    => {"name"=>"North Atlantic Ocean"}

Please read the documentation of the methods in the GeoNames class for more

information about the available methods and their arguments.

## About

I wrote this library in hopes to improve upon the original geonames library

written by Adam Wisniewski.

It's around 1/5 of the code now, and should be easier to read, understand,

extend, and hack while being closer to the original specification of the API.

### This library is licensed under the MIT License

Copyright (c) 2010 Michael Fellinger

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy

of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal

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THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR

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FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE

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