At GeoPage, we’ve been doing location-aware and geospatial applications using Rails for several years now. I’m pleased to announce that we’ve released one of our core components, the RGeo library, under a liberal BSD-style license. This library should be very useful for developers working with location data in a Rails application.

What is RGeo?

RGeo is, at its heart, a representation of spatial vector data in Ruby. It implements the industry standard OGC Simple Feature Access Specification, providing classes for points, lines, polygons, and other geometric objects, as well as a full set of geometric operations such as finding intersections, creating buffers, calculating distances, etc. It also provides the tools needed to work with geographic coordinate systems and projections, and to read and write data in the well-known formats understood by spatial databases. Continue reading →