Geo-USCensus-Geocoding/Geocoding.pm
package Geo::USCensus::Geocoding;
use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Request::Common;
use Geo::USCensus::Geocoding::Result;
use Text::CSV;
=head1 NAME
Geo::USCensus::Geocoding - The U.S. Census Bureau geocoding service
=head1 VERSION
Version 0.01
=cut
our $VERSION = '0.01';
our $DEBUG = 0;
=head1 SYNOPSIS
use Geo::USCensus::Geocoding;
my $request = {
# required fields
street => '123 Main Street',
city => 'San Francisco', # city
state => 'CA', # state
# optional fields
zip => '93102', # zip code
benchmark => 'Public_AR_ACS2013', # default is "Public_AR_Current"
vintage => 'Census2010_ACS2013', # default is "Current_Current"
debug => 1, # will print the URL and some other info
};
my $result = Geo::USCensus::Geocoding->query($request);
if ($result->is_match) {
print $result->address,"\n",
$result->latitude,", ",$result->longitude,"\n",
$result->censustract,"\n";
} else {
print "No match.\n";
}
=head1 CLASS METHODS
=head2 query HASHREF
Send a request to the web service. See
L<http://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder> for API documentation. This
package will always use the batch method (which seems to be more reliable,
as of 2015) and the Geographies return type.
Returns an object of class Geo::USCensus::Geocoding::Result.
=cut
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
my $url = 'http://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/geographies/addressbatch';
my $csv = Text::CSV->new({eol => "\n", binary => 1});
# for a current list of benchmark/vintage IDs, download
# http://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/benchmarks
# http://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/vintages?benchmark=<id>
# with Accept: application/json
sub query {
my $class = shift;
my %opt = (
returntype => 'geographies',
benchmark => 4, # "Current"
vintage => 4, # "Current"
);
if (ref $_[0] eq 'HASH') {
%opt = (%opt, %{ $_[0] });
} else {
%opt = (%opt, @_);
}
$DEBUG = $opt{debug} || 0;
my $result = Geo::USCensus::Geocoding::Result->new;
my @row = ( 1 ); # first element = row identifier
# at some point support multiple rows in a single query?
if (!$opt{street}) {
$result->error_message("Street address is required.");
return $result;
}
if (!$opt{zip} and (!$opt{city} or !$opt{state})) {
$result->error_message("Either city/state or zip code is required.");
return $result;
}
foreach (qw(street city state zip)) {
push @row, $opt{$_} || '';
}
$csv->combine(@row);
warn "Sending:\n".$csv->string."\n" if $DEBUG;
# they are not picky about content types, Accept headers, etc., but
# the uploaded file must have a _name_.
my $resp = $ua->request(POST $url,
'Content_Type' => 'form-data',
'Content' => [ benchmark => $opt{benchmark},
vintage => $opt{vintage},
returntype => $opt{returntype},
addressFile => [ undef, 'upload.csv',
Content => $csv->string
],
],
);
if ( $resp->is_success ) {
$result->content($resp->content);
my $status = $csv->parse($resp->content);
my @fields = $csv->fields;
if (!$status or @fields < 3) {
$result->error_message("Unable to parse response:\n" . $resp->content);
return $result;
}
if ( $fields[2] eq 'Match' ) {
$result->is_match(1);
$result->match_level($fields[3]);
$result->address($fields[4]);
my ($long, $lat) = split(',', $fields[5]);
$result->longitude($long);
$result->latitude($lat);
$result->state($fields[8]);
$result->county($fields[9]);
$result->tract($fields[10]);
$result->block($fields[11]);
} else {
$result->is_match(0);
}
} else {
$result->error_message( $resp->status_line );
}
return $result;
}
=head1 AUTHOR
Mark Wells, C<< <mark at freeside.biz> >>
=head1 SUPPORT
Commercial support for this module is available from Freeside Internet
Services:
L<http://www.freeside.biz/>
=back
=head1 LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2014 Mark Wells.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published
by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.
See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.
=cut
1;