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Leon Brocard (aka acme) is an orange-loving Perl eurohacker with many varied contributions to the Perl community, including the GraphViz module on the CPAN. YAPC::Europe was all his fault. He is still looking for a Perl Monger group he can start which begins with the letter 'D'.

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Friday October 25, 2002

06:58 AM

WWW::Gazetteer API

[ #8588 ]

After a little work figuring out the simplest API, Philippe "BooK" Bruhat and I have a generic gazetteer API: WWW::Gazetteer. It's a factory class, so you need to install ::Calle or ::HeavensAbove, but is dead easy to use. The following code uses both modules:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use WWW::Gazetteer; use YAML; my $g1 = WWW::Gazetteer->new('calle'); my $g2 = WWW::Gazetteer->new('heavensabove'); print Dump($g1->find("Bath", "GB")); print Dump($g2->find("Bath", "GB"));

and it prints out:

--- #YAML:1.0 city: Bath country: GB elevation: 132 latitude: 51.3833 longitude: -2.3500 --- #YAML:1.0 alias: '' elevation: 74 latitude: 51.378 longitude: -2.366 name: Bath region: Avon regionname: county

Now how many subclasses are we going to have? ;-)

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