MQProxy¶ ↑

Connect to Map Quest’s API to:

• geocode address

• get route from one address to another

gem install mqproxy

Rails <= 2.3.8 ./script/plugin install git://github.com/cbrady/MQ-Proxy.git

Rails >= 3.0 rails plugin install git://github.com/cbrady/MQ-Proxy.git

Addresses can be setup in a Hash: address1 = {:postalCode => “<zip1>”, :street => “<street1>”, :adminArea1 => “<country1>”, :adminArea3 => “<state1>”, :adminArea4 => “<county1>”,:adminArea5 => “<city1>”} address2 = {:postalCode => “<zip2>”, :street => “<street2>”, :adminArea1 => “<country2>”, :adminArea3 => “<state2>”, :adminArea4 => “<county2>”,:adminArea5 => “<city2>”}

Or as strings: address1 = “<street1> <city1>, <state1> <zip1>” address2 = “<street2> <city2>, <state2> <zip2>”

proxy = MQProxy.new route = proxy.get_route(address1, address2)

This returns a MQProxyRoute object

MQProxyRoute gives you access to certain attributes from the MapQuest response: time - total estimated travel time (seconds) distance - total distance of trip (default: miles - can be overwritten in options sent to MapQuest) directions - array of all steps of the trip raw - Hash containing entire response from MapQuest

proxy = MQProxy.new code = proxy.geocode_address(address1)

This returns a MQProxyGeocode object

MQProxyGeocode gives you access to certain attributes from the MapQuest response: street - address’ street city - address’ city zip - address’ zip code county - address’ county state - address’ state country - address’ country lat - address’ latitude lgn - address’ longitude raw - Hash containing entire response from MapQuest

To overwrite default MapQuest options pass mq_options Hash to method

proxy = MQProxy.new route = MQProxy.get_route(address1, address2, :mq_proxy => {:unit => ‘k’, :routeType => ‘shortest’})

The this tells MapQuest that you would like the shortest route possible and all of the distances in the response to be in kilometers instead of miles.

For a full list of options see the MapQuest API documentation:

www.mapquestapi.com/

Copyright © 2011 Christopher Brady, released under the MIT license