$Id: README 42 2008-03-25 21:31:07Z per.henrik.johansen $
Added JSON support so we can implement all of GeoNames methods at some point.
Added 4 new functions:
1. cities
2. country_code
3. earthquakes
4. find_nearby_weather
Fixed some bugs.
Fixed bug id 30438.
Added support for reverse geocoding of wikipedia articles and lookup of country info.
Thanks to Gordon Bower for making the initial request for these to be added.
Added support for 3 new reverse geocoding functions:
1. find nearest address
2. find nearest intersection
3. find nearby streets
These will only work for US coordinates.
Thanks to Wes Gurney for pointing out that they were missing from the module.
Maintainance realease. Fixed Makefile.PL and now use AUTOLOADER in the module.
Added support for 3 more functions from the webservices: 1. Find nearby postal codes / reverse geocoding 2. Find nearby place name / reverse geocoding 3. Postal code country info
This module provides an interface to the webservices found at http://ws.geonames.org. Currently it supports query by placename and postcode.
INSTALLATION
To install this module type the following:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
DEPENDENCIES
This module requires the following modules:
XML::Simple
LWP
COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE
Copyright (C) 2006 by Per Henrik Johansen
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.