package Geo::Coder::Yahoo; use warnings; use strict; use Carp qw(croak); use Encode qw(decode); use URI 1.36; use URI::QueryParam; use LWP::UserAgent; use Yahoo::Search::XML; our $VERSION = '0.44'; my $ua; sub _ua { return $ua if $ua; $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new; $ua->agent(__PACKAGE__ . '/' . $VERSION); $ua->env_proxy; $ua; } sub new { my $class = shift; my %args = @_; bless { appid => $args{appid} }, $class; } sub geocode { my $self = shift; my %args = @_; my $appid = $args{appid}; $appid = $self->{appid} if !$appid and ref $self; croak "appid parameter required" unless $appid; my $u = URI->new('http://api.local.yahoo.com/MapsService/V1/geocode'); $u->query_param(appid => $self->{appid}); $u->query_param($_ => $args{$_}) for keys %args; my $resp = _ua->get($u->as_string); return unless $resp->is_success; my $parsed = Yahoo::Search::XML::Parse($resp->content); return unless $parsed and $parsed->{Result}; my $results = $parsed->{Result}; $results = [ $parsed->{Result} ] if ref $parsed->{Result} eq 'HASH'; for my $d (@$results) { for my $k (keys %$d) { $d->{lc $k} = decode("utf-8", delete $d->{$k}); } } $results; } =head1 NAME Geo::Coder::Yahoo - Geocode addresses with the Yahoo! API =head1 SYNOPSIS Provides a thin Perl interface to the Yahoo! Geocoding API. use Geo::Coder::Yahoo; my $geocoder = Geo::Coder::Yahoo->new(appid => 'my_app' ); my $location = $geocoder->geocode( location => 'Hollywood and Highland, Los Angeles, CA' ); =head1 OFFICIAL API DOCUMENTATION Read more about the API at L. =head1 PROXY SETTINGS We use the standard proxy setting environment variables via LWP. See the LWP documentation for more information. =head1 EVIL HACKS In version 0.01 this module redefined the Yahoo::Search::XML::_entity function with a bug-fixed one. In Yahoo::Search 1.5.8 that function was fixed, so we don't do that anymore. =head1 METHODS =head2 new(appid => $appid) Instantiates a new object. appid is your Yahoo Application ID. You can register at L. If you don't specify it here you must specify it when calling geocode. =head2 geocode( location => $location ) Parameters are the URI arguments documented on the Yahoo API page (location, street, city, state, zip). You usually just need one of them to get results. C returns a reference to an array of results (an arrayref). More than one result may be returned if the given address is ambiguous. Each result in the arrayref is a hashref with data like the following example: { 'country' => 'US', 'longitude' => '-118.3387', 'state' => 'CA', 'zip' => '90028', 'city' => 'LOS ANGELES', 'latitude' => '34.1016', 'warning' => 'The exact location could not be found, here is the closest match: Hollywood Blvd At N Highland Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90028', 'address' => 'HOLLYWOOD BLVD AT N HIGHLAND AVE', 'precision' => 'address' } =over 4 =item precision The precision of the address used for geocoding, from specific street address all the way up to country, depending on the precision of the address that could be extracted. Possible values, from most specific to most general are: =over 4 =item address =item street =item zip+4 =item zip+2 =item zip =item city =item state =item country =back =item warning If the exact address was not found, the closest available match will be noted here. =item latitude The latitude of the location. =item longitude The longitude of the location. =item address Street address of the result, if a specific location could be determined. =item city City in which the result is located. =item state State in which the result is located. =item zip Zip code, if known. =item country Country in which the result is located. =back =head1 AUTHOR Ask Bjørn Hansen, C<< >> =head1 BUGS Please report any bugs or feature requests to C, or through the web interface at L. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes. =head1 SUPPORT You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command. perldoc Geo::Coder::Yahoo You can also look for information at: =over 4 =item * Git Repository The latest code is available from the git repository at L. You can browse it at L. It is also at L. =item * CPAN Ratings L =item * RT: CPAN's request tracker L =item * Search CPAN L =back =head1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Thanks to Yahoo for providing this free API. =head1 COPYRIGHT & LICENSE Copyright 2005-2009 Ask Bjoern Hansen, all rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. =cut 1; # End of Geo::Coder::Yahoo