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Graticule is an interesting piece of Gem that puts together a bunch of geocoding services available over the Internets in one concise and easy to use package. Using it is a snap:

require ‘graticule’

coder = Graticule.service(:yahoo).new “api_key”
locale = coder.locate “New York, NY 10003″
=> #<Graticule::Location:0×2c1dc14 @latitude=40.73236, @precision=:city, @locality=”Manhattan”, @country=”US”, @postal_code=”10003″, @longitude=-73.989089, @warning=”The exact location could not be [...]

Just plain amazing. Yeah, no new technologies involved. Just a FREAKING HUGE image database.
Can’t wait to have my street mapped like that, though!