NAME

NAME
WWW::Gazetteer::Getty - Find location of world towns and cities

SYNOPSYS
use WWW::Gazetteer;
my $g = WWW::Gazetteer::Getty->new('getty');
my @londons = $g->find('London', 'UK');
my $london = $londons[0];
print $london->{longitude}, ", ", $london->{latitude}, "\n";
my $nice = $g->find("Nice", "France")->[0];
print $nice->{city}, ", ", $nice->{elevation}, "\n";

DESCRIPTION
A gazetteer is a geographical dictionary (as at the back of an atlas).
The "WWW::Gazetteer::Getty" module uses the information at
http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabulary/tgn/ to return
geographical location (longitude, latitude) for towns and cities in
countries in the world.

This module is a subclass of "WWW::Gazetteer", so you must use that to
create a "WWW::Gazetteer::Getty" object. Once you have imported the
module and created a gazetteer object, calling find($country => $town)
will return a list of hashrefs with longitude and latitude information.

my @londons = $g->find('London', 'UK');
my $london = $londons[0];
print $london->{longitude}, ", ", $london->{latitude}, "\n";
# prints -0.1167, 51.5000

The hashref for London actually looks like this:

$london = {
longitude => "-0.167",
latitude => "51.500",
city => 'London',
country => 'United Kingdom',
};

The city and country values are the same as the ones you used. The
longitude and latitude are in degrees, ranging from -180 to 180 where
(0, 0) is on the Prime Meridian and the equator.

METHODS
new()
This returns a new WWW::Gazetteer::Getty object. It currently has no
arguments:

use WWW::Gazetteer;
my $g = WWW::Gazetteer->new('getty');

find()
The find method looks up geographical information and returns it to you.
It takes in a country and a city, with the recommended syntax being a
city name and ISO 3166 code.

Note that there may be more than one town or city with that name in the
country. You will get a list of hashrefs for each town/city.

my @londons = $g->find("London", "UK");
my @londons = $g->find("London", "United Kingdom");

The following countries are valid (as are their ISO 3166 codes):
Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola,
Anguilla, Antarctica, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba,
Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados,
Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Botswana, Bouvet Island, Brazil, British Indian Ocean
Territory, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia,
Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic,
Chad, Chile, China, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Colombia,
Comoros, Congo, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Cote D'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba,
Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic,
East Timor, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea,
Estonia, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Malvinas), Faroe Islands, Fiji,
Finland, France, France, Metropolitan, French Guiana, French Polynesia,
French Southern Territories, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana,
Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala,
Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Heard Island and McDonald Islands,
Holy See (Vatican City State), Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland,
India, Indonesia, Iran, Islamic Republic of, Iraq, Ireland, Israel,
Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Korea,
Democratic People's Republic of, Korea, Republic of, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan,
Lao People's Democratic Republic, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia,
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao,
Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of, Madagascar, Malawi,
Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Martinique,
Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Micronesia, Federated States of,
Moldova, Republic of, Monaco, Mongolia, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique,
Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New
Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Norfolk Island,
Northern Mariana Islands, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Palestinian
Territory, Occupied, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru,
Philippines, Pitcairn, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Reunion,
Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts and
Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the
Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia,
Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia,
Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Georgia and the South
Sandwich Islands, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan
Mayen, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Taiwan,
Province of China, Tajikistan, Tanzania, United Republic of, Thailand,
Togo, Tokelau, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey,
Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United
Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United Kingdom, United States, United
States Minor Outlying Islands, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela,
Vietnam, Virgin Islands, British, Virgin Islands, U.S., Wallis and
Futuna, Western Sahara, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Zaire, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Note that there may be bugs in the Getty database. Do not rely on this
module for navigation.

COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2002, Leon Brocard

This module is free software; you can redistribute it or modify it under
the same terms as Perl itself.

AUTHOR
Leon Brocard, [email protected].