I work on an app with Geolocation and we store places in our database (Postgres with Postgis extension) and keep the corresponding Google ID in our database along with the coordinates of the place.
Making external calls from your web server to Google API mid-requrest (which isn't necessarily what you asked for) doesn't sound like a scalable solution to me, you really want that stuff in your DB for it to be performant. The Google map solution where you call up a Google map and somehow interact with it client-side (via javascript) sounds promising, but yes involves a fair amount of Google API footwork to make that work. FWIW, I've been working with Postgres with Postgis extension (specifically using rgeo/activerecord-postgis-adapter). Although I do find the technology powerful, I find the documentation to be weak and ultimately have found it frustrating to use. -Jason On Jun 3, 2014, at 3:33 PM, Walter Lee Davis <wa...@wdstudio.com> wrote: > Probably Google's, since OSM is more about location / way finding than a > business listing service. That said, you're going to have to hook up some > major JavaScript to hook into the Google map and extract the user's selection > from their click. The map arrives at you fully populated, and hooked to the > rest of the Google universe in terms of what happens when you click one of > the pins. You're going to have to capture those clicks, do whatever you do to > capture the content and context of the clicks, and then what happens for your > user after that instant? Do they carry on to Google, or do you somehow > redirect them into your application? What's the goal of your app? > > Depending on what that is, you may want to consider scraping the Google map > for your target locations, and build your own database anyway. In the long > run it may be less complicated. You'll certainly not run out of API clicks > should you get popular if you do that. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/9ADD9F3C-3CAF-4561-A529-BC1022B26193%40datatravels.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
