README.markdown in andre-geokit-1.2.0 vs README.markdown in andre-geokit-1.2.1
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# Geokit gem
-[http://geokit.rubyforge.org](http://geokit.rubyforge.org)
+* Geokit Documentation at Rubyforge [http://geokit.rubyforge.org](http://geokit.rubyforge.org).
+* Repository at Github: [http://github.com/andre/geokit-gem/tree/master](http://github.com/andre/geokit-gem/tree/master).
## DESCRIPTION:
The Geokit gem provides the following:
- * Distance calculations between two points on the earth. Calculate the distance in miles or KM, with all the trigonometry abstracted away by GeoKit.
+ * Distance calculations between two points on the earth. Calculate the distance in miles, kilometers, or nautical miles, with all the trigonometry abstracted away by GeoKit.
* Geocoding from multiple providers. It currently supports Google, Yahoo, Geocoder.us, and Geocoder.ca geocoders, and it provides a uniform response structure from all of them. It also provides a fail-over mechanism, in case your input fails to geocode in one service.
* Rectangular bounds calculations: is a point within a given rectangular bounds?
* Heading and midpoint calculations
Combine this with gem with the [geokit-rails plugin](http://github.com/andre/geokit-rails/tree/master) to get location-based finders for your Rails app. Plugins for other web frameworks and ORMs will provide similar functionality.
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irb> d.ll
=> "37.7897825005142,-122.223214776155"
FYI, that `.ll` method means "latitude longitude".
+See the RDOC more more ... there is also operations on rectangular bounds (e.g., determining if a point is within bounds, find the center, etc).
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## INSTALL:
* gem sources -a http://gems.github.com
- * sudo gem install andre-geokit-gem
+ * sudo gem install andre-geokit
## Configuration
If you're using this gem by itself, here's how to set configurations: