Pearte has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear monks,

I did some CPANning and came up short, so I was hoping you all might have a solution. I am interested in taking basic latitude and longitude coordinate pairs and gathering information about the geographic location at that point: Continent, Country, State / Province, County, City ...

Anyone point me in the right direction ??

Thanks.
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Re: Lat-Lon Coordinates To Geographic Location Information
by Plankton (Vicar) on May 10, 2004 at 22:25 UTC
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Re: Lat-Lon Coordinates To Geographic Location Information
by sgifford (Prior) on May 10, 2004 at 23:30 UTC
    Geo::PostalCode might do what you want. Despite its name, it returns city and state in addition to ZIP codes. Compatible data files are currently only available for the US (AFAIK), but if you could find the required information for another area, getting it to work would simply require a short script to put the data in the right format.
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Re: Lat-Lon Coordinates To Geographic Location Information
by TomDLux (Vicar) on May 11, 2004 at 03:26 UTC

    I want to create a module to handle the Geonet names Server, someday I'll get around to it.

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