earth-tools

What

EarthTools.org Web Services Library

Installing

sudo gem install earth-tools

Requirements

• Nokogiri

Usage

Requiring

require 'earth_tools'

Current time given a latitude longitude

EarthTools.timezone({
  :latitude => 42.3583333, 
  :longitude => -71.0602778
}).isotime

=> "2009-07-02 18:28:37 -0500"

Timezone offset given a latitude longitude

EarthTools.timezone({
  :latitude => 42.3583333, 
  :longitude => -71.0602778
}).offset

=> "-5"

Sunrise time given a latitude longitude and date

EarthTools.sun({ 
  :latitude => 42.3583333, 
  :longitude => -71.0602778, 
  :day => 1, 
  :month => 10
}).morning.sunrise

=> "05:42:09"

Sunset time given a latitude longitude and date

EarthTools.sun({
  :latitude => 42.3583333, 
  :longitude => -71.0602778, 
  :day => 1, 
  :month => 10
}).evening.sunset

=> "17:24:15"

Links

• RDoc
• EarthTools.org Web Services Documentation
• Github

Source

git clone git://github.com/psergi/earth-tools.git

License

This code is free to use under the terms of the MIT license.

Phil Sergi, 2nd July 2009
Theme extended from Paul Battley