CHANGELOG.md
## 1.16.0
* Added sublocality to Google geocoder
## 1.15.0
* Removed support for no longer accessible geocoder.us
## 1.14.0
* Introduced NoSuchGeocoderError. If you try call a geocoder like :bogus that doesn't exist, an error will be returned.
* Upgraded to coveralls_reborn
* Replaced deprecated URI.escape with CGI.escape
* Fixed old mocha incompatability, now calls mocha/test_unit and not mocha/setup
* Bumped minimum Ruby version
## 1.13.1
**Existing Geocoder Changes**
* OSM - Fix deprecation by using HTTPS
## 1.13.0
**Existing Geocoder Changes**
* Ipstack: Fix success where city can be nil
* FCC: Update to new API
## 1.12.0
**Existing Geocoder Changes**
* FreegeoIp: Deprecated
**Other Changes**
* Added Ipstack which replaces Freegeoip
## 1.11.0
**Existing Geocoder Changes**
* Google - Add components option
* Google - Add zip code handling
* Google - optional reverse parameters
* Bing - Provice is actually district (county)
* Mapbox - Handle state only values
* Yandex - Fetch district
* Fix multi geocoder
* Various province improvements
**Other Changes**
* Alias province to city
* Use Timeout::Error instead of TimeoutError
## 1.10.0
**Existing Geocoder Changes**
* Google: place_id/formatted_address support
* Google: Improve error handling
* Google: Consistent precision names
* Google: Improve ordering
* Mapbox: city-only support
* Mapbox: Make MultiGeocoder compatible
* CaGeocoder: Fix url and xml
* Yandex: Use https
**Other Changes**
* Added Geobytes geocoder
* Replace MultiJSON with JSON
* Fix Get with URI (not URL)
* Fix missing openssl requirement
* Error when units invalid/unsupported
## 1.9.0
* Drop Ruby 1.8 support
* Make meter centric
* Add meters as a unit
* Use state_name/state_code instead of state
## 1.8.5
* HTTPS on Google, Bing, Yahoo and MapQuest
* Added Geocod.io Geocoder
* Can use Google Key on free geocoder
* Fix bug in RIPE geocoder where no locations returned
* provider_order option for MultiGeocoder
* dms return methods (degree, minute, second)
## 1.8.4
* Fix math error in ruby 1.8
* Extract HTTP processing to allow different HTTP clients for caching, etc.
## 1.8.3
* Fix MultiGeocoder with geocoders that only have one argument
## 1.8.2
* Fix due to name clash with dependency definitions in geokit 1.8.1
* Standaride GeoLoc provider string
## 1.8.1
* Change way keys/dependencies defined
## 1.8.0
* Added Bing Geocoder
* Added freegeoip.net Geocoder
* Added MapQuest Geocoder
* Remove Google (v2) Geocoder and rename Google3 (v3) to Google
* Added tests for various gateways
* Greatly standarize, simplify and improve code
* Reorganise files
* MaxMind bug fixes
## 1.7.1
* Remove geoip require from MaxMind to avoid new dependency issues
## 1.7.0
* Added Yahoo Boss, Yandex, RIPE and MaxMind Support
* Integration tests for google/yahoo boss
* Other minor fixes/improvements
## 1.6.6
* Minor fixes/improvements
## 1.6.5 / 2012-01-23
* first release by @imajes, thanks @andre for all the hard work!
* normalized whitespace
* added support for subpremise on google3 encoder
* fixed yahoo's support by switching to placefinder
* switched to multi json for agnostic json support
* removed hoe and replaced with bundler's gem harness
## 1.6.0 / 2011-05-27
* added Google geocoder3 support (thanks @projectdx)
* added FCC encoder support (thanks @paulschreiber)
* various minor fixes.
## 1.5.0 / 2009-09-21
* fixed jruby compatibility (thanks manalang)
* added country name to Google reverse geocoder (thanks joahking)
* added DependentLocalityName as district, and SubAdministrativeAreaName as province (google geocoder only)
* Google geocoder throws an error if you exceed geocoding rates (thanks drogus)
## 1.4.1 / 2009-06-15
* Fixed Ruby 1.9.1 compat and load order (thanks Niels Ganser)
## 1.4.0 / 2009-05-27
* Added country code/viewport biasing to GoogleGeocoder. Added Bounds#to_span method
* Added suggested_bounds (Geokit::Bounds) property to GeoLoc. (Google geocoder only)
* Added LatLng#reverse_geocode convenience method (thanks Tisho Georgiev for all three)
## 1.3.2 / 2009-05-27
* Fixed blank address geocoding bug
## 1.3.1 / 2009-05-21
* Support for External geocoders file (thanks dreamcat4)
* Support multiple ip geocoders, including new setting for ip_provider_order (thanks dreamcat4)
## 1.3.0 / 2009-04-11
* Added capability to define multiple API keys for different domains that may be pointing to the same application (thanks Glenn Powell)
* Added numeric accuracy accessor for Yahoo and Google geocoders (thanks Andrew Fecheyr Lippens)
* Implement #hash and #eql? on LatLng to allow for using it as a hash key (thanks Luke Melia and Ross Kaffenberger)
## 1.2.6 / 2009-03-19
* misc minor fixes
## 1.2.5 / 2009-02-25
* fixed GeoLoc.to_yaml
* fixed minor google geocoding bug
* now periodically publishing the Geokit gem to Rubyforge. Still maintaining development and managing contributions at Github
## 1.2.4 / 2009-02-25
* Improved Google geocoder in the Gem: Support for multiple geocoding results from the Google geocoder. (thanks github/pic)
## 1.2.3 / 2009-02-01
* Adding GeoPluginGeocoder for IP geocoding (thanks github/xjunior)
* Ruby 1.9.1 compatibility and Unicode fixes (thanks github/Nielsomat)
* various bug fixes
## 1.2.1 / 2009-01-05
* minor bug fixes
* reverse geocoding added (Google only): res=Geokit::Geocoders::GoogleGeocoder.reverse_geocode "37.791821,-122.394679"
* nautical miles added (in addition to miles and KM)
## 1.2.0 / 2008-12-01
* Improved Geocoder.us support -- respects authentication, and can geocode city names or zipcodes alone
* cross-meridian finds work correctly with bounds conditions
* fixed a problem with columns with "distance" in their name
* added Geonames geocoder
* the gem and plugin are now hosted at Github.
## 1.1.1 / 2008-01-20
* fixes for distance calculation (in-memory and database) when distances are either very small or 0.
* NOTE: older versions of MySQL/Postgres may not work. See readme for more info.
## 1.1.0 / 2007-12-07
* Geokit is now Rails 2.0 / Edge friendly.
## 1.0.0 / 2007-07-22
* see http://earthcode.com/blog/2007/07/new_geokit_release.html
* auto geocoding: an option to automatically geocode a model's address field on create
* in-memory sort-by-distance for arrays of location objects
* bounding box queries: `Location.find :all, :bounds=>[sw,ne]`
* improved performance by automatically adding a bounding box condition to radial queries
* new Bounds class for in-memory bounds-related operations
* ability to calculate heading and midpoint between two points
* ability to calculate endpoint given a point, heading, and distance