I’ve been keeping an eye on SimpleGeo over the last few months. If you haven’t heard of the company, they’re providing some interesting ways on making applications location-aware through their two beta products: Context and Places.

You’ll need to sign up for a JSONP API key if you want to use SimpleGeo as your geocoding service for Graticule. The JSONP client gives you read-only access to every endpoint available through their API.

After that, it’s just a matter of initializing a Graticule service, and you’re on your way to simple geocoding…

geocoder = Graticule.service(:SimpleGeo).new(LONG_SIMPLEGEO_TOKEN)

location = geocoder.locate '41 Decatur Street, San Francisco, CA 94103'
location.coordinates
#=> [37.772555, -122.405978]