My comments were somewhat tongue in cheek , but I would love to see an example of what you mean?

There would still need to be storage to hold whatever value are associated with each time/lat/long combination, and Perl's object system seems particularly inadaquate for dealing with this kind of aggregate data. Both Javascript and VB (from what little I know of it), seem to have a consistant syntax for this kind of thing, but perl's is particularly clumsy.