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The Geokit gem provides:
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- Distance calculations between two points on the earth. Calculate the distance
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in miles, kilometers, meters, or nautical miles, with all the trigonometry
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abstracted away by Geokit.
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- Geocoding from multiple providers. It supports Google, Yahoo, Geocoder.us, and
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Geocoder.ca geocoders, and others. It provides a uniform response structure
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from all of them. It also provides a fail-over mechanism, in case your input
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fails to geocode in one service.
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- Rectangular bounds calculations: is a point within a given rectangular bounds?
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- Heading and midpoint calculations
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