Fellow Monk no_slogan wrote a piece of software that calculates the magnetic declination and inclination for a set of worldly coordinates.

In the mentioned thread, it was requested that a suitable naming convention be created for the resulting distribution that I very happily created, taking up the offer of readying it for the CPAN. I gave it the name Magnetic::Declination temporarily so I could build the original template with Module::Starter.

Although it's a recent post, it's in Cool Uses For Perl, so it may not be readily visible to all comers.

I will be ready by end of day today to upload it, but am waiting for consensus and am hoping to fast-track it a bit. I hope to have the name by early next week sometime. no_slogan has final say, so let's get some recommendations going if possible.

Here's the current SYNOPSIS and DESCRIPTION:

SYNOPSIS

        use Magnetic::Declination qw(mag_dec mag_inc);
    
        my $lat = 53.1234567;
        my $lon = -114.1234567;
        my $alt = 1098;
    
        my $declination = mag_dec($lat, $lon, $alt);
        my $inclination = mag_inc($lat, $lon, $alt);

DESCRIPTION

    This module calculates and returns the magnetic declination and
    inclination (dip) calculations based on WMM earth magnetism model
    for a specified latitude and longitude pair.

    See L<NOAA|https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/geomag/WMM/DoDWMM.shtml> for
    details.

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Thoughts?

In reply to CPAN distribution naming recommendations by stevieb

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