NAME

Geo::Cloudmade - An extended interface to Cloudmade's Geo API (geocoding, routing, drawing tiles)

DESCRIPTION

  Cloudmade is a provider of FREE map of the world (http://cloudmade.com).
  This module implements an OO wrapper around Cloudmade's Geo API.
  For now the following features were implemented:
   - geocoding and geosearching
   - routing
   - obtaining tiles

  Some of functionality providede by Cloudmade is not implemented yet in this module.
  If you have any questions or/and suggestions please contact me.

SYNOPSIS

  use Geo::Cloudmade;

  #use api key for access to service
  my $geo = Geo::Cloudmade->new('BC9A493B41014CAABB98F0471D759707');

  #find coordinates of geo object
  my @arr = $geo->find("Potsdamer Platz,Berlin,Germany", {results=>5, skip=>0});

  print $geo->error(), "\n" unless @arr;

  print "Number of results: ", scalar (@arr), "\n";
  foreach (@arr) {
    print $_->name,":\n", $_->centroid->lat, "/", $_->centroid->long, "\n"
  }

  # finding closest POI (Point of Interest)
  # for list all available objects please look at http://developers.cloudmade.com/projects/show/geocoding-http-api
  @arr = $geo->find_closest('library', [59.12, 81.1]);
  print "No closest variants\n" unless @arr;

  # reverse geocoding
  my ($reverse)  = $geo->find_closest('address', [52.4870,13.4248]);
  if (defined $reverse) {
    print join ' ', $reverse->properties('addr:housenumber', 'addr:street', 'addr:postcode', 'addr:city'), "\n";
  } else { print "No results, sorry\n" }

  #calculate route
  my $route = $geo->get_route([47.25976, 9.58423], [47.66117, 9.99882], { type=>'car', method=>'shortest' } );
  print "Distance: ", $route->total_distance, "\n";
  print "Start: ", $route->start, "\n";
  print "End: ", $route->end, "\n";

  print "Route segments:\n";
  print join (',', @$_), "\n" foreach (@{$route->segments});

  #get tile
  my $tile = $geo->get_tile([47.26117, 9.59882], {zoom=>10, tile_size=>256});
  open (my $fh, '>', 'test.png') or die "Cannot open file $!\n";
  binmode $fh;
  print $fh $tile;

CONSTRUCTOR

new API-KEY

 Usage		:   my $geo = Geo::Cloudmade->new('your-ip-key');
 Function       :   Constructs and returns a new Geo::Cloudmade object
 Returns        :   a Geo::Cloudmade object
 API-KEY        :   api key provided by Cloudmade. For request api key please visit http://developers.cloudmade.com/projects>

OBJECT METHODS

find QUERY, PARAMS

 Usage	 :    my @arr = $geo->find("Potsdamer Platz,Berlin,Germany", {results=>5, skip=>0});
 Function:    Returns geo objects (bound box and\or location) by query or nothing
 Returns :    Array of Geo::Cloudmade::Result objects or one Geo::Cloudmade::Results if scalar value was expected
 QUERY	 :    Query in format POI, House Number, Street, City, County like "Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, Germany".
              Also near is supported in queries, e.g. "hotel near Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, Germany"
 PARAMS  :   Hash for control ouptut. Valid elements are bbox, results, skip, bbox_only, return_geometry, return_location
             For more info about parameters please look at http://developers.cloudmade.com/wiki/geocoding-http-api/Documentation

find_closest OBJECT POINT PARAMS

  Usage: @arr = $geo->find_closest('library', [59.12, 81.1]);
  Function: Find closest object(s).
  Returns array of Geo::Cloudmade::Result objects like find method
  OBJECT - point of interest, list of supported objects located at http://developers.cloudmade.com/projects/show/geocoding-http-api
  POINT  - reference of array of [$lattitude, $longtitude]
  PARAMS - optional parameters like return_geometry and return_location
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sub find_closest { my ($self, $objType, $point, $opt) = @_; $opt = {} unless defined $opt; my %params = ( return_geometry => 'true', return_location=>'true', around => $point->[0].','.$point->[1], object_type => $objType, distance => 'closest', %$opt ); my $content = $self->call_service("geocoding/v2/find.js", [%params], 'geocoding');

  return unless $content;
  my $ref = from_json($content, {utf8 => 1});
  my @objs;
  push @objs, bless $_, 'Geo::Cloudmade::Result' foreach (@{$ref->{features}});
  return @objs if wantarray;
  return bless  [ objs=>\@objs ], 'Geo::Cloudmade::Results'
}

get_route START END PARAMS

  Usage:   my $route = $geo->get_route([47.25976, 9.58423], [47.66117, 9.99882],
           { type=>'car', method=>'shortest' } );
  Function: Calculates route from START to END and returns Geo::Cloudmade::Route object

get_tile CENTER PARAMS

  Returns raw png data of specified map point
  CENTER  array reference to latitude and longtitude
  PARAMS  optional parameters. Allowed parameters are zoom, stile, size
          For more info please look at official documentation from Cloudmade

AUTHOR

Dmytro Gorbunov, <dmitro.gorbunov@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.9 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.