Geo::Coder::Googlev3(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				 Geo::Coder::Googlev3(3pm)

NAME

       Geo::Coder::Googlev3 - Google Maps v3 Geocoding API

SYNOPSIS

	   use Geo::Coder::Googlev3;

	   my $geocoder = Geo::Coder::Googlev3->new;
	   my $location  = $geocoder->geocode(location => 'Brandenburger Tor, Berlin');
	   my @locations = $geocoder->geocode(location => 'Berliner Strasse, Berlin, Germany');

DESCRIPTION

       Use this module just like Geo::Coder::Google. Note that no "apikey" is used in Google's v3 API, and the returned data structure differs.

       Please check also <http://code.google.com/intl/en/apis/maps/documentation/geocoding/> for more information about Google's Geocoding API and
       especially usage limits.

   CONSTRUCTOR
       new
	       $geocoder = Geo::Coder::Googlev3->new;
	       $geocoder = Geo::Coder::Googlev3->new(language => 'de', gl => 'es');

	   Creates a new geocoding object.

	   The "ua" parameter may be supplied to override the default LWP::UserAgent object. The default "LWP::UserAgent" object sets the
	   "timeout" to 15 seconds and enables the "env_proxy" option.

	   The Geo::Coder::Google's "oe" and "apikey" parameters are not supported.

	   The parameters "region", "language", and "bounds" are also accepted. The "bounds" parameter should be in the form:

	      [{lat => ..., lng => ...}, {lat => ..., lng => ...}]

   METHODS
       geocode
	       $location = $geocoder->geocode(location => $location);
	       @locations = $geocoder->geocode(location => $location);

	   Queries $location to Google Maps geocoding API. In scalar context it returns a hash reference of the first (best matching?) location.
	   In list context it returns a list of such hash references.

	   The returned data structure looks like this:

	     {
	       "formatted_address" => "Brandenburger Tor, Pariser Platz 7, 10117 Berlin, Germany",
	       "types" => [
		 "point_of_interest",
		 "establishment"
	       ],
	       "address_components" => [
		 {
		   "types" => [
		     "point_of_interest",
		     "establishment"
		   ],
		   "short_name" => "Brandenburger Tor",
		   "long_name" => "Brandenburger Tor"
		 },
		 {
		   "types" => [
		     "street_number"
		   ],
		   "short_name" => 7,
		   "long_name" => 7
		 },
		 {
		   "types" => [
		     "route"
		   ],
		   "short_name" => "Pariser Platz",
		   "long_name" => "Pariser Platz"
		 },
		 {
		   "types" => [
		     "sublocality",
		     "political"
		   ],
		   "short_name" => "Mitte",
		   "long_name" => "Mitte"
		 },
		 {
		   "types" => [
		     "locality",
		     "political"
		   ],
		   "short_name" => "Berlin",
		   "long_name" => "Berlin"
		 },
		 {
		   "types" => [
		     "administrative_area_level_2",
		     "political"
		   ],
		   "short_name" => "Berlin",
		   "long_name" => "Berlin"
		 },
		 {
		   "types" => [
		     "administrative_area_level_1",
		     "political"
		   ],
		   "short_name" => "Berlin",
		   "long_name" => "Berlin"
		 },
		 {
		   "types" => [
		     "country",
		     "political"
		   ],
		   "short_name" => "DE",
		   "long_name" => "Germany"
		 },
		 {
		   "types" => [
		     "postal_code"
		   ],
		   "short_name" => 10117,
		   "long_name" => 10117
		 }
	       ],
	       "geometry" => {
		 "viewport" => {
		   "southwest" => {
		     "lat" => "52.5094785",
		     "lng" => "13.3617711"
		   },
		   "northeast" => {
		     "lat" => "52.5230586",
		     "lng" => "13.3937859"
		   }
		 },
		 "location" => {
		   "lat" => "52.5162691",
		   "lng" => "13.3777785"
		 },
		 "location_type" => "APPROXIMATE"
	       }
	     };

	   The raw option may be set to a true value to get the uninterpreted, raw result from the API. Just the JSON data will be translated into
	   a perl hash.

	       $raw_result = $geocoder->geocode(location => $location, raw => 1);

       region
	   Accessor for the "region" parameter. The value should be a country code ("es", "dk", "us", etc). Use this to tell the webservice to
	   prefer matches from that region. See the Google documentation for more information.

       language
	   Accessor for the "language" parameter.

       bounds
	   Accessor for the "bounds" parameter.

AUTHOR

       Slaven Rezic <srezic@cpan.org>

       This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

       Geo::Coder::Google, Geo::Coder::Many.

perl v5.14.2							    2011-12-22						 Geo::Coder::Googlev3(3pm)