geocoder

The GoogleGeocoder class is responsible for calling the geocoder service through HTTP with a given street address.

Now that you have a geocoder in place, the next step is to integrate it with your Grails application.

A quick Web search on free geocoder yields a number of potential candidates for the trip planner's geocoding needs.

It also has interfaces to a number of geocoder tools, including Google, Yahoo!

You can use any geocoder you like to produce a file of the format expected to be in cityCoords.

Once you find the right geocoder for the job, create a Grails service to encapsulate the remote Web services call in a reusable method call.

If you exceed this 24 -hour limit , the Maps API geocoder may stop working for you temporarily .

That way, the geocoder has to do its initialization only once for a block and not once for each row again.

First you will call the Geocoder from PHP, and use the SimpleXML module to traverse the results.

You called the Geocoder service and stored the coordinate information in the database.

The first line gets a HashMap from the geocoder service.

Use the JavaScript library provided by Google to call the Geocoder before you submit the form that contains the user's address information

Geocoder (created at the beginning of the initialize function in Listing 3. )

Call the Geocoder server-side before recording the information in the database

Storing Geocoder data in the database