WWW::MapBlast module

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

Any idea how can I use WWW::MapBlast module, not really sure what should be the correct format in the code that I am writing. Following is just a test code I am using from the documentation of CPAN


use WWW::MapBlast;
#This modules takes in the country and gives the longitude and latitud
+e of the that country.

my ($lat, $lon) = WWW::MapBlast::latlon('United Kingdom', 'E14NS');

print ("$lat - $lon \n");
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Re: WWW::MapBlast module by marto (Cardinal) on Jul 18, 2012 at 14:53 UTC
This is hardly surprising since the service was decommissioned a decade ago. Perhaps one of the Geo::Coder modules could be used as a replacement.	[reply]
Re: WWW::MapBlast module by tobyink (Canon) on Jul 18, 2012 at 14:43 UTC
Your code looks right to me. It's just that the module itself is b0rked. The most recent version of the module was released in July 2001. It attempts to read data from a website that was acquired by Microsoft and shut down in 2002. If you only need UK data, take a look at these: http://www.easypeasy.com/guides/article.php?article=64 http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/products/code-point-open/ `perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'`	[reply]
Re^2: WWW::MapBlast module by maheshkumar (Sexton) on Jul 18, 2012 at 17:44 UTC
Any ideas on how can I find the longitiude and latitude from the IPs that I have?	[reply]
Re^3: WWW::MapBlast module by marto (Cardinal) on Jul 18, 2012 at 17:55 UTC
Your question asks how to get lat/long from an address, now you're asking for lat/long from IP? Mapping visitors to my site	[reply]
Re^3: WWW::MapBlast module by tobyink (Canon) on Jul 18, 2012 at 18:11 UTC
`E14NS` is a postcode, not an IP address. If you want to get longitude and latitude from an IP address, you should be aware that in the general case it cannot be done. When you get assigned a block of IP addresses, you are not compelled to tell anybody the geographic location from which they will be used; whatsmore proxies can hide the true IP address of the end-user. That said, through a combination of techniques, MaxMind's GeoIP database does a pretty good job of mapping IP addresses to locations that works in a large majority of cases. `perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'`	[reply] [d/l]
Re: WWW::MapBlast module by toolic (Bishop) on Jul 18, 2012 at 14:48 UTC
Submit a bug report. This will let the author, as well as everyone who is thinking of using the module, know there is a problem.	[reply]