NAME
    WWW::Gazetteer - Find location of world towns and cities

SYNOPSYS
      use WWW::Gazetteer;
      my $g = WWW::Gazetteer->new();
      my $london = $g->fetch("London", "United Kingdom");
      print $london->{longitude}, ", ", $london->{latitude}, "\n";
      my $nice = $g->fetch("Nice", "France");
      my @bactons = $g->fetch("Bacton", "United Kingdom");
      # note: more than one Bacton in the UK!

DESCRIPTION
    A gazetteer is a geographical dictionary (as at the back of an atlas).
    The `WWW::Gazetteer' module uses the information at
    http://www.calle.com/world/ to return geographical location (longitude,
    latitude) for towns and cities in countries in the world.

    Once you have imported the module and created a gazetteer object,
    calling fetch($town, $country) will return a list of hashrefs with
    longitude and latitude information.

      my $london = $g->fetch("London", "United Kingdom");
      print $london->{longitude}, ", ", $london->{latitude}, "\n";
      # prints -0.1167, 51.5000

    Note that there may be more than one town or city with that name in the
    country. In that case, you will get a list of hashrefs for each
    town/city.

    The following countries are valid: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria,
    Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia,
    Ashmore and Cartier Islands, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas,
    The, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin,
    Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Bouvet Island,
    Brazil, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, Brunei,
    Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape
    Verde, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China,
    Clipperton Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Colombia, Congo, Cook
    Islands, Coral Sea Islands, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech
    Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican
    Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea,
    Estonia, Ethiopia, Europa Island, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas),
    Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, The, Georgia, Republic of,
    Germany, Ghana, Gibraltar, Glorioso Islands, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala,
    Guernsey, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Heard Island and
    McDonald Islands, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India,
    Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Isle of Man, Israel, Italy, Jamaica,
    Japan, Jersey, Jordan, Juan de Nova Island, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati,
    Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya,
    Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau, Macedonia, The Former
    Yugoslav Republic of, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali,
    Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico,
    Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique,
    Namibia, Naoero, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger,
    Nigeria, Niue, Norfolk Island, North Korea, Norway, Oman, Pakistan,
    Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Pitcairn Islands,
    Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis,
    Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Sao
    Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra
    Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South
    Africa, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, South Korea,
    Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland,
    Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tokelau, Tonga,
    Trinidad and Tobago, Tristan da Cunha, Tromelin Island, Tunisia, Turkey,
    Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United
    Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican
    City, Venezuela, Vietnam, Western Sahara, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

COPYRIGHT
    Copyright (C) 2002, Leon Brocard

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

AUTHOR
    Leon Brocard, acme@astray.com. Based upon ideas and code by Nathan
    Bailey.

