Geo::ICAO - Airport and ICAO codes lookup


Geo-ICAO documentation Contained in the Geo-ICAO distribution.

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NAME

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Geo::ICAO - Airport and ICAO codes lookup

VERSION

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version 1.100140

SYNOPSIS

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    use Geo::ICAO qw{ :all };

    my @region_codes = all_region_codes();
    my @region_names = all_region_names();
    my $code   = region2code('Canada');
    my $region = code2region('C');

    my @country_codes = all_country_codes();
    my @country_names = all_country_names();
    my @codes  = country2code('Brazil');
    my $region = code2country('SB');

    my @airport_codes = all_airport_codes('B');
    my @airport_names = all_airport_names('B');
    my $code    = airport2code('Lyon Bron Airport');
    my $airport = code2airport('LFLY');
    my ($airport, $location) = code2airport('LFLY'); # list context

DESCRIPTION

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The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a major agency of the United Nations, codifies the principles and techniques of international air navigation and fosters the planning and development of international air transport to ensure safe and orderly growth. Among the standards defined by ICAO is an airport code system (not to be confused with IATA airport codes), using 4-letter for this.

This module provides easy access to the list of airport ICAO codes, with mapping of those codes with airport names, country and region codes.

Nothing is exported by default, but all the functions described below are exportable: it's up to you to decide what you want to import. Export is done with Sub::Exporter, so you can play all kind of tricks.

Note that the keyword :all will import everything, and each category of function provides its own keyword. See below.

Regions

The first letter of an ICAO code refer to the region of the airport. The region is quite loosely defined as per the ICAO. This set of functions allow retrieval and digging of the regions.

Note: you can import all those functions with the :region keyword.

Countries

The first two letters of an ICAO code refer to the country of the airport. Once again, the rules are not really set in stone: some codes are shared by more than one country, some countries are defined more than once... and some countries (Canada, USA, Russia, Australia and China) are even coded on only one letter - ie, the country is the same as the region). This set of functions allow retrieval and digging of the countries.

Note: you can import all those functions with the :country keyword.

Airports

This set of functions allow retrieval and digging of the airports, which are defined on 4 letters.

Note: you can import all those functions with the :airport keyword.

REGION FUNCTIONS

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my @codes = all_region_codes();

Return the list of all single letters defining an ICAO region. No parameter needed.

my @regions = all_region_names();

Return the list of all ICAO region names. No parameter needed.

my $code = region2code( $region );

Return the one-letter ICAO $code corresponding to $region. If the region does not exist, return undef.

my $region = code2region( $code );

Return the ICAO $region corresponding to $code. Note that $code can be a one-letter code (region), two-letters code (country) or a four- letters code (airport): in either case, the region will be returned.

Return undef if the associated region doesn't exist.

COUNTRIES FUNCTIONS

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my @codes = all_country_codes( [$code] );

Return the list of all single- or double-letters defining an ICAO country. If a region $code is given, return only the country codes of this region. (Note: dies if $code isn't a valid ICAO region code).

my @countries = all_country_names( [$code] );

Return the list of all ICAO country names. If a region $code is given, return only the country names of this region. (Note: dies if $code isn't a valid ICAO region code).

my @codes = country2code( $country );

Return the list of ICAO codes corresponding to $country. It's a list since some countries have more than one code. Note that the codes can be single-letters (USA, etc.)

my $country = code2country( $code );

Return the ICAO $country corresponding to $code. Note that $code can be a classic country code, or a four-letters code (airport): in either case, the region will be returned.

Return undef if the associated region doesn't exist.

AIRPORT FUNCTIONS

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my @codes = all_airport_codes( $code );

Return the list of all ICAO airport codes in the $code country ($code can also be a region code). Note that compared to the region or country equivalent, this function requires an argument. It will die otherwise (or if $code isn't a valid ICAO country or region code).

my @codes = all_airport_names( $code );

Return the list of all ICAO airport names in the $code country ($code can also be a region code). Note that compared to the region or country equivalent, this function requires an argument. It will die otherwise (or if $code isn't a valid ICAO country or region code).

my $code = airport2code( $airport );

Return the $code of the $airport, undef i no airport matched. Note that the string comparison is done on a case-insensitive basis.

my $airport = code2airport( $code );

Return the $airport name corresponding to $code. In list context, return both the airport name and its location (if known).

SEE ALSO

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You can look for information on this module at:

* Search CPAN

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Geo-ICAO

* See open / report bugs

http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Geo-ICAO

* Git repository

http://github.com/jquelin/geo-icao

* AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation

http://annocpan.org/dist/Geo-ICA

* CPAN Ratings

http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Geo-ICAO

AUTHOR

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  Jerome Quelin

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

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Geo-ICAO documentation Contained in the Geo-ICAO distribution.

# 
# This file is part of Geo-ICAO
# 
# This software is copyright (c) 2007 by Jerome Quelin.
# 
# This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
# the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
# 
use 5.008;
use warnings;
use strict;

package Geo::ICAO;
our $VERSION = '1.100140';
# ABSTRACT: Airport and ICAO codes lookup

use Carp;
use File::ShareDir qw{ dist_dir };
use List::Util     qw{ first };
use Path::Class;
use Readonly;
use Sub::Exporter  qw{ setup_exporter };


# -- exporting
{
    my @regions   = qw{ all_region_codes  all_region_names  region2code  code2region  };
    my @countries = qw{ all_country_codes all_country_names country2code code2country };
    my @airports  = qw{ all_airport_codes all_airport_names airport2code code2airport };
    setup_exporter( {
        exports => [ @regions, @countries, @airports ],
        groups  => {
            region  => \@regions,
            country => \@countries,
            airport => \@airports,
        }
    } );
}


#-- private vars.

# - vars defined statically

# list of ICAO codes for the regions with their name.
Readonly my %code2region => (
    A => 'Western South Pacific',
    B => 'Iceland/Greenland',
    C => 'Canada',
    D => 'West Africa',
    E => 'Northern Europe',
    F => 'Southern Africa',
    G => 'Northwestern Africa',
    H => 'Northeastern Africa',
    K => 'USA',
    L => 'Southern Europe and Israel',
    M => 'Central America',
    N => 'South Pacific',
    O => 'Southwest Asia, Afghanistan and Pakistan',
    P => 'Eastern North Pacific',
    R => 'Western North Pacific',
    S => 'South America',
    T => 'Caribbean',
    U => 'Russia and former Soviet States',
    V => 'South Asia and mainland Southeast Asia',
    W => 'Maritime Southeast Asia',
    Y => 'Australia',
    Z => 'China, Mongolia and North Korea',
);

# list of ICAO codes for the countries with their name.
Readonly my %code2country => _get_code2country();

# location of data file
Readonly my $FDATA => file( dist_dir('Geo-ICAO'), 'icao.data' );


# - vars computed after other vars

my %region2code = reverse %code2region;
my %country2code;
{ # need to loop, since some countries have more than one code.
    foreach my $code ( keys %code2country ) {
        my $country = $code2country{$code};
        push @{ $country2code{$country} }, $code;
    }
}


#-- public subs

# - subs handling regions.


sub all_region_codes { return keys %code2region; }
sub all_region_names { return keys %region2code; }



sub region2code { return $region2code{$_[0]}; }
sub code2region {
    my ($code) = @_;
    my $letter = substr $code, 0, 1; # can be called with an airport code
    return $code2region{$letter};
}


# - subs handling countries.


sub all_country_codes {
    my ($code) = @_;

    return keys %code2country unless defined $code; # no filters
    # sanity checks on params
    croak "'$code' is not a valid region code" unless defined code2region($code);
    return grep { /^$code/ } keys %code2country;    # filtering
}



sub all_country_names {
    my ($code) = @_;

    return keys %country2code unless defined $code; # no filters
    # sanity checks on params
    croak "'$code' is not a valid region code" unless defined code2region($code);

    # %country2code holds array refs. but even if a country has more
    # than one code assigned, they will be in the same region: we just
    # need to test the first code.
    return grep { $country2code{$_}[0] =~ /^$code/ } keys %country2code;
}



sub country2code {
    my ($country) = @_;
    my $codes = $country2code{$country};
    return defined $codes ? @$codes : undef;
}



sub code2country {
    my ($code) = @_;
    return $code2country{$code}
        || $code2country{substr($code,0,2)}
        || $code2country{substr($code,0,1)};
}


# - subs handling airports


sub all_airport_codes {
    my ($code) = @_;

    # sanity checks on params
    croak 'should provid a region or country code' unless defined $code;
    croak "'$code' is not a valid region or country code"
        unless exists $code2country{$code}
            || exists $code2region{$code};

    open my $fh, '<', $FDATA or die "can't open $FDATA: $!";
    my @codes;
    LINE:
    while ( my $line = <$fh>) {
        next LINE unless $line =~ /^$code/;  # filtering on $code
        my ($c, undef) = split/\|/, $line;
        push @codes, $c;
    }
    close $fh;
    return @codes;
}



sub all_airport_names {
    my ($code) = @_;

    # sanity checks on params
    croak 'should provid a region or country code' unless defined $code;
    croak "'$code' is not a valid region or country code"
        unless exists $code2country{$code}
            || exists $code2region{$code};

    open my $fh, '<', $FDATA or die "can't open $FDATA: $!";
    my @codes;
    LINE:
    while ( my $line = <$fh>) {
        next LINE unless $line =~ /^$code/;  # filtering on $code
        my (undef, $airport, undef) = split/\|/, $line;
        push @codes, $airport;
    }
    close $fh;
    return @codes;
}



sub airport2code {
    my ($name) = @_;

    open my $fh, '<', $FDATA or die "can't open $FDATA: $!";
    LINE:
    while ( my $line = <$fh>) {
        my ($code, $airport, undef) = split/\|/, $line;
        next LINE unless lc($airport) eq lc($name);
        close $fh;
        return $code;
    }
    close $fh;
    return;          # no airport found
}



sub code2airport {
    my ($code) = @_;

    open my $fh, '<', $FDATA or die "can't open $FDATA: $!";
    LINE:
    while ( my $line = <$fh>) {
        next LINE unless $line =~ /^$code\|/;
        chomp $line;
        my (undef, $airport, $location) = split/\|/, $line;
        close $fh;
        return wantarray ? ($airport, $location) : $airport;
    }
    close $fh;
    return;          # no airport found
}


# -- private subs

#
# my %data = _get_code2country();
#
# read the country.data file shipped in the share/ directory, parse and
# return it as a hash. the key is the country code, the value is the
# country name.
#
sub _get_code2country {
    my %data;
    my $file = file( dist_dir('Geo-ICAO'), 'country.data' );
    open my $fh, '<', $file or die "can't open $file: $!";
    while ( my $line = <$fh>) {
        chomp $line;
        my ($code, $country) = split/\|/, $line;
        $data{$code} = $country;
    }
    close $fh;
    return %data;
}


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