PHP Wrapper for Google Maps API Geocoding

My PHP wrapper for the Google Maps API geocoding service. See below the code for the back story. Please do report bugs or ask questions in the comments.
Code

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A PHP wrapper for the Google Maps API geocoding services.
Requires json_decode be available.
Licensed under the MIT/X11 license (see below).
Thomas David Baker, bakert@gmail.com

Example:

// Can take streetnames [...]