Geo

A tiny Rails app which uses the Geocoder gem to geocode addresses in the supplied CSV file.

Why?

A colleague had to geocode a lot of addresses. This would be an ongoing requirement.

Install

gem install bundler

Clone this repository
cd into the cloned repository
bundle install
rails s

Use

1. Drag-drop your csv file onto the browser window running the application.
2. The file must include: 'Address', 'Latitude' and 'Longitude' columns (amongst others).
3. A progress bar will show the number of rows geocoded.
4. Once the process finishes a file called geocoded.csv will be downloaded, containing your original columns with the longitude and latitude filled in.
5. You can download previous results by clicking the big red button.

Background Photo

That's a photo showing the Tauranga waterfront.