Geo-Coder-Postcodes/lib/Geo/Coder/Postcodes.pm
package Geo::Coder::Postcodes;
use strict;
use warnings;
use Carp;
use Encode;
use JSON::MaybeXS;
use HTTP::Request;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use LWP::Protocol::https;
use URI;
=head1 NAME
Geo::Coder::Postcodes - Provides a geocoding functionality using L<https://postcodes.io>.
=head1 VERSION
Version 0.08
=cut
our $VERSION = '0.08';
=head1 SYNOPSIS
use Geo::Coder::Postcodes;
my $geo_coder = Geo::Coder::Postcodes->new();
my $location = $geo_coder->geocode(location => 'Margate');
=head1 DESCRIPTION
Geo::Coder::Postcodes provides an interface to postcodes.io,
a free Geo-Coder database covering the towns in the UK.
=head1 METHODS
=head2 new
$geo_coder = Geo::Coder::Postcodes->new();
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();
$ua->env_proxy(1);
$geo_coder = Geo::Coder::Postcodes->new(ua => $ua);
=cut
sub new {
my $class = shift;
my %args = (ref($_[0]) eq 'HASH') ? %{$_[0]} : @_;
if(!defined($class)) {
# Geo::Coder::Postcodes::new() used rather than Geo::Coder::Postcodes->new()
# FIXME: this only works when no arguments are given
$class = __PACKAGE__;
} elsif(ref($class)) {
# clone the given object
return bless { %{$class}, %args }, ref($class);
}
my $ua = delete $args{ua} || LWP::UserAgent->new(agent => __PACKAGE__ . "/$VERSION");
# if(!defined($args{'host'})) {
# $ua->ssl_opts(verify_hostname => 0); # Yuck
# }
my $host = delete $args{host} || 'api.postcodes.io';
return bless { ua => $ua, host => $host, %args }, $class;
}
=head2 geocode
$location = $geo_coder->geocode(location => $location);
print 'Latitude: ', $location->{'latitude'}, "\n";
print 'Longitude: ', $location->{'logitude'}, "\n";
=cut
sub geocode {
my $self = shift;
scalar(@_) > 0 or
Carp::croak('Usage: geocode(location => $location)');
my %param;
if (@_ % 2 == 0) {
%param = @_;
} else {
$param{location} = shift;
}
my $location = $param{location};
unless(defined($location)) {
Carp::croak('Usage: geocode(location => $location)');
return;
}
my $county;
if($location =~ /,/) {
if($location =~ /^([\w\s\-]+?),([\w\s]+?),[\w\s]+?$/i) {
# Turn 'Ramsgate, Kent, UK' into 'Ramsgate'
$location = $1;
$county = $2;
$county =~ s/^\s//g;
$county =~ s/\s$//g;
} else {
Carp::croak('Postcodes.io only supports towns, not full addresses');
return;
}
}
$location =~ s/\s/+/g;
if(Encode::is_utf8($location)) {
$location = Encode::encode_utf8($location);
}
my $uri = URI->new("https://$self->{host}/places/");
my %query_parameters = ('q' => $location);
$uri->query_form(%query_parameters);
my $url = $uri->as_string();
$url =~ s/%2B/+/g;
my $res = $self->{ua}->get($url);
if($res->is_error) {
Carp::croak("postcodes.io API returned error: on $url " . $res->status_line());
return;
}
my $json = JSON::MaybeXS->new()->utf8();
# TODO: wantarray
my $rc = $json->decode($res->decoded_content());
my @results = @{$rc->{result}};
if($county) {
# TODO: search through all results for the right one, e.g. Leeds in
# Kent or in West Yorkshire?
foreach my $result(@results) {
# if(defined($result->{'county_unitary'}) && ($result->{'county_unitary_type'} eq 'County')) {
if(my $unitary = $result->{'county_unitary'}) {
# $location =~ s/+/ /g;
if(($unitary =~ /$county/i) || ($unitary =~ /$location/i)) {
return $result;
}
}
if((my $region = $result->{'region'}) && ($county =~ /\s+(\w+)$/)) {
if($region =~ /$1/) {
# e.g. looked for South Yorkshire, got Yorkshire and the Humber
return $result;
}
}
}
return;
}
return $results[0];
}
=head2 ua
Accessor method to get and set UserAgent object used internally. You
can call I<env_proxy> for example, to get the proxy information from
environment variables:
$geo_coder->ua()->env_proxy(1);
You can also set your own User-Agent object:
use LWP::UserAgent::Throttled;
$geo_coder->ua(LWP::UserAgent::Throttled->new());
=cut
sub ua {
my $self = shift;
if (@_) {
$self->{ua} = shift;
}
$self->{ua};
}
=head2 reverse_geocode
$location = $geo_coder->reverse_geocode(latlng => '37.778907,-122.39732');
Similar to geocode except it expects a latitude/longitude parameter.
=cut
sub reverse_geocode {
my $self = shift;
scalar(@_) > 0 or
Carp::croak('Usage: reverse_geocode(latlng => $latlng)');
my %param;
if (@_ % 2 == 0) {
%param = @_;
} else {
$param{latlng} = shift;
}
my $latlng = $param{latlng};
unless(defined($latlng)) {
Carp::croak('Usage: reverse_geocode(latlng => $latlng)');
return;
}
my $uri = URI->new("https://$self->{host}/postcodes/");
my ($lat, $lon) = split(/,/, $param{latlng});
my %query_parameters = ('lat' => $lat, 'lon' => $lon, radius => '1000');
$uri->query_form(%query_parameters);
my $url = $uri->as_string;
my $res = $self->{ua}->get($url);
if ($res->is_error) {
Carp::croak("postcodes.io API returned error: on $url " . $res->status_line());
return;
}
my $json = JSON::MaybeXS->new->utf8();
my $rc = $json->decode($res->content);
if($rc->{'result'}) {
my @results = @{$rc->{'result'}};
return $results[0];
}
return;
}
=head1 BUGS
Note that this most only works on towns and cities, some searches such as "Margate, Kent, UK"
may work, but you're best to search only for "Margate".
=head1 AUTHOR
Nigel Horne C<< <njh@bandsman.co.uk> >>
Based on L<Geo::Coder::GooglePlaces>.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself.
Lots of thanks to the folks at postcodes.io.
=head1 SEE ALSO
L<Geo::Coder::GooglePlaces>, L<HTML::GoogleMaps::V3>
=head1 LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2017-2024 Nigel Horne.
This program is released under the following licence: GPL2
=cut
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