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blib/lib/Geo/Parser/Text.pm

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pod	4	8	50.0
total	43	115	37.3

package Geo::Parser::Text;

use 5.006;
use strict;
use warnings;

use XML::Simple;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Request;
use URI;
use Data::Dumper;


use constant DEBUG    => 0;
use constant GEO_HOST => q{http://geocode.xyz};

sub new {
    my $class = shift;

    my $self = {
        geo_host        => shift
    };

    bless ($self, $class);
    return $self;
}

sub geodata {
  my $self = shift;
  $self->{geodata} = $_[0] if $_[0];
  return $self->{geodata};
}

sub geoit {
  my $self = shift;
  $self->{geoit} = $_[0] if $_[0];
  return $self->{geoit};
}

sub scantext {
  my $self = shift;
  $self->{scantext} = $_[0] if $_[0];
  return $self->{scantext};
}

sub locate {
  my $self = shift;
  $self->{locate} = $_[0] if $_[0];
  return $self->{locate};
}
sub geo_result {
  my $self = shift;
  $self->{geo_result} = $_[0] if $_[0];
  return $self->{geo_result};
}

sub geocode {
  my $self    = shift;

  my %form_values;
  foreach my $param (qw(scantext locate)) {
    $form_values{$param} = $self->$param;
  }
  $form_values{geoit} = 'XML';

warn Data::Dumper->Dump([\%form_values],['Form Values']) if DEBUG;

  $self->process_request(%form_values);

    my $geodata    = $self->geodata;
	my @a = split(//,$geodata);
	my $geod = pop @a;
	$geod = '' . $geod;
	my $ref = XMLin($geod);
warn Data::Dumper->Dump([$ref],['Response']) if DEBUG;
$self->geo_result($ref);

  return $self->geo_result;
}

sub process_request {
  my $self        = shift;
  my %form_values = @_;
  $self->{geo_host} = GEO_HOST unless $self->{geo_host};

  my $uri = URI->new;
  $uri->query_form(%form_values);
  my $ua  = LWP::UserAgent->new;
  my $req = HTTP::Request->new(POST => $self->{geo_host});
  $req->content_type('application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
  $req->content($uri->query);

  my $res    = $ua->request($req);
  my $result = $res->as_string;

warn $result if DEBUG;

  my $geodata = $result;


  return $self->geodata($geodata);
}



=head1 NAME

Geo::Parser::Text - Perl extension for parsing and geocoding locations from free form text. (See Geocode.xyz or Geolytica.com or addrs.xyz for coverage details)

=head1 VERSION

Version 0.03

=cut

our $VERSION = '0.03';


=head1 SYNOPSIS

	use Geo::Parser::Text;

	# initialize with your host
	my $g = Geo::Parser::Text->new([geo_host]);

	# Scan text for locations...
	$g->scantext($text);

        # Geocode a single location...
        $g->locate($string);
        #
	if ($g->geocode) {
		my $hashref  = $g->geocode;
	}

	# Example...

	use Geo::Parser::Text;
	use Data::Dumper;
	my $g = Geo::Parser::Text->new('http://geocode.xyz');

	$g->scantext('The most important museums of Amsterdam are located on the Museumplein, located at the southwestern side of the Rijksmuseum.');
	print Dumper $g->geocode;

    	#or

	$g->locate('10 Downing St, London SW1A 2AA, United Kingdom');
  	print Dumper $g->geocode;



=head1 DESCRIPTION

This module provides a Perl frontend for the geocode.xyz API. It allows the programmer to extract locations containing street addresses, street intersections and city names along with their geocoded latitude,longitude from bodies of text such as microblogs or wikipedia entries. (It should work with any type of text, but dumping html text or paragraphs containing over 200 words, will slow down the response considerably. If you need faster parsing grab the geocode.xyz server image on the AWS, and run it on a faster server (it is currenly running on a micro instance and is shared as a free public API without any throttling or rate limiting in place.)
If you run your own instance, make sure to pass the instance ip address or domain name at invocation eg, Geo::Parser::Text->new($server). For North American locations use geolytica.com, and for Australia and New Zealand use addrs.xyz

The api also geocodes single locations (returning the location matched with the highest probability from a string of text. If you pass a latitude,longitude pair, it will reverse geocode that point)

For explanation on the API responses see http://geocode.xyz/api

=head2 METHODS

=head2 new ( host => 'geocode.xyz');

Initialize with the default server. geocode.xyz for Europe, geocoder.ca for North America, addrs.xyz for Australia and New Zealand.

=item scantext($text)

Set the text to be scanned.

=item locate($string)

Set the string to be geocoded. ($string may contain an address, city name, post code, for forward geocoding; or latitude,longitude pair for reverse geocoding)

=item geocode()

Send the text/string to geocode.xyz and return the hash reference with the response.
You are required to set either the scantext or locate method before calling geocode().


=head1 EXPORT

None by default.



=head1 REQUIREMENTS

XML::Simple,
LWP::UserAgent,
HTTP::Request,
URI

=head1 AUTHOR

Ervin Ruci, C<<  >>

=head1 BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to C, or through
the web interface at L.  I will be notified, and then you'll
automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.




=head1 SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc Geo::Parser::Text


You can also look for information at:

=over 4

=item * RT: CPAN's request tracker (report bugs here)

L

=item * AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation

L

=item * CPAN Ratings

L

=item * Search CPAN

L

=back


=head1 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS


=head1 LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2016 Ervin Ruci.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the the Artistic License (2.0). You may obtain a
copy of the full license at:

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Versions is governed by this Artistic License. By using, modifying or
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This license does not grant you the right to use any trademark, service
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=head1 SEE ALSO

Geo::Coder::Canada
Geo::Parse::OSM
Text::NLP
=cut

1; # End of Geo::Parser::Text