NAME

Geo::IATA - Search airports by iata, icao codes

VERSION

This document describes Geo::IATA version 0.0.3

Airport codes where taken from wikipedia 2009-06-20. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airports_by_IATA_code

SYNOPSIS

    use Geo::IATA;
    $g = Geo::IATA->new;
    
    print $g->icao2iata("EDDB");          # SXF
    print $g->iata2icao("SXF");           # EDDB
    print $g->iata2airport("SXF");        # Berlin-Schönefeld International Airport
    print $g->iata("SXF")->[0]{airport};  # same but with full resultset

    print map{$_->{airport}} @{$g->airport("A%")}; # all airport names starting with A

    print $g->icao("EDDB")->[0]{iata};    # SXF

    print map {$_->{iata} } @{$g->location("%France")};  # iata code for french airports
  
  

DESCRIPTION

This module provides a SQLite DB for airport data. Searchable information are IATA,ICAO data airport name and location.

INTERFACE

Geo::IATA is a pure oo module.

new

Constructor. A connection to internal SQLite DB is opened. You can optional specify the path to the sqlite database. The sqlite db default location is dirname($INC{Geo/IATA.pm})/IATA/iata_sqlite.db

dbh

Gets the dbh to internal sqlite database.

iata

icao

airport

location

Input: iata, icao code, airport name or location. May use SQL wildcards.

Returns an arrayref of hashrefs of all matched rows for the query

select * from table where <field> like <arg>

[{iata => IATA,icao => ICAO, airport => AIRPORT,location => LOCATION}]

(iata|icao|airport|location)2(iata|icao|airport|location)

Simple from2to mapping methods. On multiple matches the first one is taken. Warning some iata codes have no mapping to icao code in wikipedia.

AUTOLOAD

The module uses AUTOLOAD to call above queries.

DESTROY

Closes internal dbi connection to sqlite db.

UPDATE AIRPORT CODES

You can manually update the airport codes from wikipedia with the script

create/iata_wikipedia.pl

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-geo-iata@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org.

SEE ALSO

GEO::ICOA # somehow slow, handles only icoa codes http://www.nagilum.net/irssi-iata/ # embedded in irssi

AUTHOR

Joerg Meltzer <joerg <at> joergmeltzer.de>

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2009, Joerg Meltzer <joerg <at> joergmeltzer.de>. All rights reserved.

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

Airport data is provided by wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY

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cpanm Geo::IATA

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Geo::IATA