NAME
Geo::Fips55 - Perl extension for parsing FIPS-55 gazetteer data
SYNOPSIS
use Geo::Fips55;
@records = Geo::Fips55->parse_file( $filehandle );
Geo::Fips55->parse_file( $filehandle, \&callback );
$record = Geo::Fips55->new( \%data );
$record->state_fips();
$record->place_fips();
$record->state();
$record->num_counties();
$record->crsn();
$record->class();
$record->name();
$record->county_fips();
$record->county();
$record->part_of();
$record->other_name();
$record->zip();
$record->postal_match();
$record->zip_range();
$record->gsa();
$record->mrf();
$record->msa();
$record->cd1(); # and so on up to cd14()
DESCRIPTION
Geo::Fips55 provides a representation of the US Geological Survey
FIPS-55 gazetteer format. Each object is one record. It also contains
methods to parse FIPS-55 data files and turn them into objects.
This is intended as an intermediate format between pulling the raw data
out of the simplistic FIPS-55 data files into something more
sophisticated (a process you should only have to do once). As such, its
not very fast, but its careful, easy to use and performs some
verifications on the data being read.
This module subclasses Michael Schwern's very nice Geo::TigerLine
modules to do all the heavy lifting.
BUGS, CAVEATS, ETC.
This module wasn't automatically generated like the
Geo::TigerLine::Record::* modules were. Probably it should have been,
but the FIPS data record layout changes even less often than the TIGER
data -- the last revision to the FIPS-55 spec was in 1994. If it ever
gets revised, I will gladly update this module by hand.
SEE ALSO
You can learn more about the FIPS-55 standard and download the entire US
geographic names database from <http://geonames.usgs.gov/fips55.html>.
Geo::TigerLine(3pm)
AUTHOR
Schuyler D. Erle <schuyler@nocat.net>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2004 by Schuyler D. Erle
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.3 or, at
your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.