What I am up to at the moment

2009 March 08 in computer programming, location-based by corprew | No comments

This is more or less a good guide to what I am up to at the moment, although it should be noted that I’ve written this same code fragment in three languages in the last while (this is ruby, the others were PHP and Java, although the Java one was a festival of reflection due to type wackiness.)

I actually have another version of the same code that puts a URL in the debug log that can be used to click directly to google maps. Why? I don’t know. I’m beginning to value Aptana Studio’s remix of Eclipse more and more as time goes on though because I now have Java, PHP, and Ruby/Rails all in the same highly (mostly) performing IDE. The alleged iPhone mode doesn’t work on my computer but I have CRAZY LIBERRIES installed at the moment and I suspect that that’s in large part my own fault — the apple tools still work.

  def geo_desc ( geo_loc, extended = false)
     #
     #  specialized pretty printer for address types.
     #  note that there is pretty much a standard mixin for geo stuff and
     #  this works across all the geocoding packages and model types.
     #
     return "[nil location]" if geo_loc.nil?
     desc = "[" 
     desc < < geo_loc.country_code.downcase unless geo_loc.country_code.nil?
     desc << "." + geo_loc.state.downcase unless geo_loc.state.nil?
     desc << "." + geo_loc.city.downcase unless geo_loc.city.nil?
     desc << "." + geo_loc.zip unless geo_loc.zip.nil?
     desc << "] "
     desc << "["
     desc << geo_loc.lat.to_s unless geo_loc.lat.nil?
     desc << ","
     desc << geo_loc.lng.to_s unless geo_loc.lng.nil?
     unless geo_loc.precision.nil? or geo_loc.precision == "unknown"
       desc << " (" + geo_loc.precision + ")" 
     else
       desc << " ?"
     end
     desc << "]"
     if extended
       desc << " " + geo_loc.full_address unless geo_loc.full_address.nil?
     end
     return desc
  end

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