WWW::Gazetteer::Getty 0.11

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/conducting_research/vocabularies/tgn/ to return geographical location (longitude, latitude) for towns and cities in countries in the world.

WWW::Gazetteer::Getty 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}, "
";
 # 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.

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}, "
";
 my $nice = $g->find("Nice", "France")->[0];
 print $nice->{city}, ", ", $nice->{elevation}, "
";


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