# GeoSearch with Ferret

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/geosearch-with-ferret/170226>\
**Category:** Ferret\
**Created:** [June 14, 2009, 12:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/geosearch-with-ferret/170226 "2009-06-14T12:43:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Christian\_Aust](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/5daacb/32.png) [@Christian\_Aust](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Christian_Aust)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2009, 12:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/geosearch-with-ferret/170226/1 "2009-06-14T12:43:37Z")

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Hi all,

unfortunately, the site [tourb.us](http://tourb.us) has been closed, but the wayback  
machine still reveals their approach to geo-searches with ferret [1].  
In 2006, Dave (Balman?) replied that things could be handled  
differently in later versions. I’m new to Ferret/Ruby/Rails (although  
I’ve extensive experiences with Lucene/Java) so I’m wondering if that  
actually was implemented, and how such code should look like today. I  
couldn’t find an example or tutorial, can anybody please help out?

Kind regards,

Christian

[1]  
[http://web.archive.org/web/20071223222924rn\_1/blog.tourb.us/archives/ferret-and-location-based-searches/](http://web.archive.org/web/20071223222924rn_1/blog.tourb.us/archives/ferret-and-location-based-searches/)