使用geokit浏览位置

Question

My user model is using geokit to find the address from an ip address. How do I let the user select a different country, state or city? I have checked all the documentation and I can't figure out how to retrieve a list of countries, states or cities.

Answer 1

Your question isn't 100% clear but you may be trying to do something Geokit isn't designed for.

Geokit basically does one thing: it takes an IP address, or a physical address, and gives you the lat/long. When you install it as a Rails plugin, you can geocode your models (usually with a street address) and it adds some useful stuff to your model classes. These extra things let you compute distances between your model objects.

AFAIK, you can't get a list of countries from Geokit. On my projects I've either used one of the free online lists, exported a list from another application, or subscribed to a service.