In sub init_event { ... } 
{
  "name"     => "snowville",
  "date"     => $date_str,
  "time"     => $time_str,
  "location" => { lon => -112.7105234, lat => 41.9655701 },
  42.152429, -112.9842191
},

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Is the 42.152429, -112.9842191 key/value pair from the posted code perhaps a tyop? It's syntactically correct, but looks semantically fishy. Looks like it escaped from the following event record anonymous hash. (Update: OTOH, it looks quite harmless since you're unlikely to ever encounter a "42.152429" key in your code. :)

Also, if init_event() isn't just stub code for the SSCCE, a more succinct way to write it would be 

c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use Data::Dump qw(dd);

sub init_event {

    # define unique event records as anonymous hash refs.
    my $ar_events = [
        { "name"     => "Boise",
          "location" => { lon => -116.2, lat => 43.61 },
          },
        { "name"     => "near sublett",
          "location" => { lon => -113.2104084, lat => 42.3278114 },
          },
        { "name"     => "snowville",
          "location" => { lon => -112.7105234, lat => 41.9655701 },
          },
        { "name"     => "juniper",
          "location" => { lon => -112.9842191, lat => 42.152429 },
          },
        # and so on...
        ];

    # add standard date/time to each event record.
    my $date_str = "2021-10-14";
    my $time_str = "03:22:31";

    @{$_}{ qw(date time) } = ($date_str, $time_str) for @$ar_events;

    return $ar_events;

    }

my $ar_ev = init_event();
dd $ar_ev;

^Z
[
  {
    date     => "2021-10-14",
    location => { lat => "43.61", lon => "-116.2" },
    name     => "Boise",
    "time"   => "03:22:31",
  },
  {
    date     => "2021-10-14",
    location => { lat => "42.3278114", lon => "-113.2104084" },
    name     => "near sublett",
    "time"   => "03:22:31",
  },
  {
    date     => "2021-10-14",
    location => { lat => "41.9655701", lon => "-112.7105234" },
    name     => "snowville",
    "time"   => "03:22:31",
  },
  {
    date     => "2021-10-14",
    location => { lat => "42.152429", lon => "-112.9842191" },
    name     => "juniper",
    "time"   => "03:22:31",
  },
]

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In reply to Re^3: approximating geological problems with highway data by AnomalousMonk
in thread approximating geological problems with highway data by Aldebaran

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