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For Geocoding, here's another nice gem that uses Google/Yahoo/Freegeoip: https://github.com/alexreisner/geocoder.

Do you know how it compares to Geokit?

I just switched from geokit to geocoder in the app I'm building. I found geocoder to be significantly better for my purposes.

Can you expound upon that? What limits did you hit, how has geocoder fixed those, etc?

No technical limits were hit. They have nearly the same feature set.

Geocoder's api feels a little bit more modern Geokit (rails3 vs 2). Having read the code for both, Geocoder was cleaner and would be easier to tweak if necessary.

So really it's just a preference: they do the same thing.

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