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package Geo::USCensus::Geocoding;
use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use JSON;
use URI;
use Geo::USCensus::Geocoding::Match;
=head1 NAME
Geo::USCensus::Geocoding - The U.S. Census Bureau geocoding service
=head1 VERSION
Version 0.01
=cut
our $VERSION = '0.01';
our $DEBUG = 0;
=head1 SYNOPSIS
use Geo::USCensus::Geocoding;
my $request = {
# required fields
street => '123 Main Street',
city => 'San Francisco', # city
state => 'CA', # state/province
zip => '93102', # zip/postal code
# optional fields
benchmark => 'Public_AR_ACS2013', # default is "Public_AR_Current"
vintage => 'Census2010_ACS2013', # default is "Current_Current"
debug => 1, # will print the URL and some other info
};
my $result = Geo::USCensus::Geocoding->query($request);
if ($result->matches) {
my $match = $result->match(0);
print $match->matchedAddress,"\n",
$match->coordinates->{x},',',$match->coordinates->{y},"\n",
$match->censustract,"\n";
}
=head1 CLASS METHODS
=head2 query HASHREF
Send a request to the web service. See
L<http://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder> for API documentation. This
package will always use the JSON data format and the Geographies return type.
Returns an object of class Geo::USCensus::Geocoding.
=cut
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
my $api_uri = 'http://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/geographies/address';
sub query {
my $class = shift;
my %opt = (
benchmark => 'Public_AR_Census2010',
vintage => 'Census2010_Census2010',
);
if (ref $_[0] eq 'HASH') {
%opt = (%opt, %{ $_[0] });
} else {
%opt = (%opt, @_);
}
$DEBUG = $opt{debug} || 0;
$opt{format} = 'json';
foreach (qw(street city state zip)) {
die "$_ required\n" unless length($opt{$_});
}
my $uri = URI->new($api_uri);
$uri->query_form(\%opt);
warn "$class->query\n$uri\n\n" if $DEBUG;
my $http_req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $uri->as_string);
my $resp = $ua->request($http_req);
my $self = { addr_response => $resp };
bless $self, $class;
if ( $resp->is_success ) {
local $@;
my $tree = eval { from_json($resp->content) };
if ($@) {
$self->message("Unable to parse response:\n$@");
return $self;
}
if (!exists $tree->{result}) {
$self->message("Response does not contain geocoding results.");
warn $self->message. "\n".$resp->content."\n\n";
return $self;
}
$tree = $tree->{result};
my @matches;
if (exists( $tree->{addressMatches} )) {
foreach my $am (@{ $tree->{addressMatches} }) {
push @matches, Geo::USCensus::Geocoding::Match->new($am);
}
} # else what? does this happen if there's no match? a proper REST
# interface should throw a 404
$self->{matches} = \@matches;
} else {
$self->message( $resp->status_line );
}
$self;
}
=head1 METHODS
=head2 message
Sets/gets an explicit error status.
=cut
sub message {
my $self = shift;
if (@_) {
$self->{_message} = shift;
}
$self->{_message} || '';
}
=head2 matches
Returns the number of matches found.
=cut
sub matches {
my $self = shift;
$self->{matches} ? scalar @{ $self->{matches} } : 0;
}
=head2 match NUMBER
Returns a specific match (starting from zero). Matches are returned
as L<Geo::USCensus::Geocoding::Match> objects, in the order they were
returned by the service.
=cut
sub match {
my $self = shift;
my $i = shift;
$self->{matches}->[$i];
}
=head1 AUTHOR
Mark Wells, C<< <mark at freeside.biz> >>
=head1 SUPPORT
Commercial support for this module is available from Freeside Internet
Services:
L<http://www.freeside.biz/>
=back
=head1 LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2014 Mark Wells.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published
by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.
See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.
=cut
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