URI::geo - The geo URI scheme.
This document describes URI::geo version 0.05
use URI; # GeoURI from textual uri my $guri = URI->new( 'geo:54.786989,-2.344214' ); # From coordinates my $guri = URI::geo->new( 54.786989, -2.344214 ); # Decode my ( $lat, $lon, $alt ) = $guri->location; my $latitude = $guri->latitude; # Update $guri->location( 55, -1 ); $guri->longitude( -43.23 );
From http://geouri.org/:
More and more protocols and data formats are being extended by methods to add geographic information. However, all of those options are tied to that specific protocol or data format. A dedicated Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) scheme for geographic locations would be independent from any protocol, usable by any software/data format that can handle generich URIs. Like a "mailto:" URI launches your favourite mail application today, a "geo:" URI could soon launch your favourite mapping service, or queue that location for a navigation device.
new
Create a new URI::geo. The arguments should be either
latitude, longitude and optionally altitude
a reference to an array containing lat, lon, alt
a reference to a hash with suitably named keys or
a reference to an object with suitably named accessors
To maximise the likelyhood that you can pass in some object that represents a geographical location and have URI::geo do the right thing we try a number of different accessor names.
If the object has a latlong method (eg Geo::Point) we'll use that. If there's a location method we call that. Otherwise we look for accessors called lat, latitude, lon, long, longitude, ele, alt, elevation or altitude and use them.
latlong
location
lat
latitude
lon
long
longitude
ele
alt
elevation
altitude
Often if you have an object or hash reference that represents a point you can pass it directly to new; so for example this will work:
use URI::geo; use Geo::Point; my $pt = Geo::Point->latlong( 48.208333, 16.372778 ); my $guri = URI::geo->new( $pt );
As will this:
my $guri = URI::geo->new( { lat => 55, lon => -1 } );
and this:
my $guri = URI::geo->new( 55, -1 );
Note that you can also create a new URI::geo by passing a GeoURI to URI::new:
URI::geo
URI::new
use URI; my $guri = URI->new( 'geo:55,-1' );
Get or set the location of this geo URI.
my ( $lat, $lon, $alt ) = $guri->location; $guri->location( 55.3, -3.7, 120 );
When setting the location it is possible to pass any of the argument types that can be passed to new.
Get or set the latitude of this geo URI.
Get or set the longitude of this geo URI.
Get or set the altitude of this geo URI. To delete the altitude set it to undef.
undef
URI
Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-uri-geo@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org.
bug-uri-geo@rt.cpan.org
Andy Armstrong <andy@hexten.net>
<andy@hexten.net>
Copyright (c) 2009, Andy Armstrong <andy@hexten.net>.
This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See perlartistic.
To install URI::geo, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm URI::geo
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install URI::geo
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.