NAME

Geo::iArea - Convert latitude/longitude data to NTT DoCoMo's iArea data

SYNOPSIS

    use Geo::iArea;

    # Convert from latitude/longitude data
    # If specified 2 arguments, judge them as latitude/longitude.
    # latitude/longitude must be wgs84 datum.

    my $ia = Geo::iArea->new(35.0000,135.0000);

    # You can also make iArea object from iArea code.
    # If argument is only 1 and it is 5 digits, it is judged as iArea code.

    my $ia = Geo::iArea->new('25100');

    # You can also make iArea object from 2~7 level mesh code.
    # If argument is only 1 and it is 6~11 digits, it is judged as mesh code.

    my $ia = Geo::iArea->new('52354000000');

    # After create iArea object, you can access to iArea property.
    my $name   = $ia->name   # Name of area.
    my $region = $ia->region # Name of Japanese region which the area is included.
    my $pref   = $ia->pref   # Name of prefecture which the area is included.
    my ( $min_lat, $min_lng, $max_lat, $max_lng ) = $ia->rectangle();
                             # Return MBR rectange data of given iArea.
    my ( $cen_lat, $cen_lng ) = $ia->center();
                             # Return center data of given iArea.

CONSTRUCTOR

• new

FUNCTIONS

• name

• region>

• pref

• rectangle

• center

Geo::iArea requires no configuration files or environment variables.

DEPENDENCIES

None.

INCOMPATIBILITIES

None reported.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

No bugs have been reported.

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-geo-iarea@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org.

AUTHOR

OHTSUKA Ko-hei <nene@kokogiko.net>

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2008, OHTSUKA Ko-hei <nene@kokogiko.net>.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See perlartistic.

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