This is a Ruby Gem for gazetteer alignment. It aims to provide generic functionality for finding potential matches between two placename datasets.
WARNING: This project is still under active initial development, and may still be subject to changes and API breakage.
To use this library as a gem, add the following line to your Gemfile:
gem 'geocollider', :git => 'https://github.com/isawnyu/geocollider.git'
Then run bundle update, and add require geocollider.
There are some sample command-line ruby scripts in the bin/ directory that use Geocollider for aligning various kinds of data.