Geo-Hashing version 0.01

NAME

Geo::Hashing - Perl library to calculate Geohashing points

SYNOPSIS

      use Geo::Hashing;
      my $g = new Geo::Hashing(lat => 37, lon => -122, date => "2008-05-24");
      printf "Today's location is at %.6f, %.6f.\n", $g->lat, $g->lon;

DESCRIPTION

This module allows calculating the locaiton of Geohashes as described in http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/Main_Page.

METHODS
new
Create a new Geo::Hashing object.

lat
Set or get the points latitude. When settings, only the integer portion is considered. Set to undef to just get the offset.

lon
Set or get the points longitude. When settings, only the integer portion is considered. Set to undef to just get the offset.

date
Set or get the date used for the calculation. Note that this is the actual date of the meetup in question, even when the 30w rule is in effect.

djia
Set or get the Dow Jones Industrial Average used for the calculation. If not set, it will be automatically retrieved depending on the value of $self->source.

source
Set the source of the DJIA opening data. Will load Geo::Hashing::Source::Name and call get_djia($date). See Geo::Hashing::Source::Random for a sample.

use_30w_rule
Set or get the 30w flag. Will be set automatically if lon is set and is greater than -30.

debug
Enable or disable diagnostic logging

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

DEPENDENCIES

This module requires these other modules and libraries:

Digest::MD5
LWP::Simple (if using the default Geo::Hashing::Source::Peeron)

SEE ALSO

Original comic: http://www.xkcd.com/426/

Wiki: http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/Main_Page

IRC: irc://irc.xkcd.com/geohashing

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Put the correct copyright and licence information here.

Copyright (C) 2008 by Dan Boger

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.10.0 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.

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$Id: README 255 2008-06-21 03:48:46Z dan $