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

SYNOPSYS
      use WWW::Gazetteer;
      my $g = WWW::Gazetteer::FallingRain->new('calle');
      my @londons = $g->find(UK => 'London');
      my $london = $londons[0];
      print $london->{longitude}, ", ", $london->{latitude}, "\n";
      my $nice = $g->find("Nice", "France")->[0];
      print $nice->{city}, ", ", $nice->{elevation}, "\n";

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

    This module is a subclass of "WWW::Gazetteer", so you must use that to
    create a "WWW::Gazetteer::FallingRain" object. Once you have imported
    the module and created a gazetteer object, calling find($country =>
    $town) will return a list of hashrefs with longitude and latitude
    information.

      my @londons = $g->find(UK => 'London');
      my $london = $londons[0];
      print $london->{longitude}, ", ", $london->{latitude}, "\n";
      # prints -0.1167, 51.5000

    The hashref for London actually looks like this:

      $london = {
        longitude => "-0.1167",
        latitude  => "51.5000",
        city      => 'London',
        country   => 'UK',
        elevation => "14",
      };

    The city and country values are the same as the ones you used. The
    elevation is elevation above sea level in meters. The longitude and
    latitude are in degrees, ranging from -180 to 180 where (0, 0) is on the
    Prime Meridian and the equator.

METHODS
  new()
    This returns a new WWW::Gazetteer::FallingRain object. It currently has
    no arguments:

      use WWW::Gazetteer;
      my $g = WWW::Gazetteer->new('calle');

  find()
    The find method looks up geographical information and returns it to you.
    It takes in a country and a city, with the recommended syntax being ISO
    3166 code and city name. However, it also tries to do what you mean.

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

      my @londons = $g->find("UK" => "London");
      my @londons = $g->find("United Kingdom" => "London");
      my @londons = $g->find("London", "United Kingdom");

    The following countries are valid (as are their ISO 3166 codes):
    Afghanistan, Albania, American Samoa, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and
    Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan,
    Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Bermuda,
    Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Bouvet Island,
    Brazil, British Indian Ocean Territory, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria,
    Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Cayman Islands,
    Central African Republic, Chad, China, Christmas Island, Colombia,
    Congo, Congo, The Democratic Republic of the, Cook Islands, Costa Rica,
    Cote D'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Djibouti,
    Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea,
    Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Malvinas), Faroe Islands,
    Fiji, Finland, France, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon, Gambia,
    Georgia, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe,
    Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Heard Island and
    McDonald Islands, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India,
    Indonesia, Iran, Islamic Republic of, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica,
    Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Korea, Republic of, Kuwait,
    Kyrgyzstan, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho,
    Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao,
    Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of, Madagascar, Malawi,
    Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania,
    Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Micronesia, Federated States of, Moldova,
    Republic of, Monaco, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru,
    Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, Netherlands, New Caledonia, New Zealand,
    Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Norfolk Island, Northern Mariana
    Islands, Norway, Pakistan, Palestinian Territory, Occupied, Panama,
    Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Reunion,
    Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts and
    Nevis, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines,
    Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia
    and Montenegro, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia,
    Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Georgia and the South
    Sandwich Islands, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan
    Mayen, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Taiwan,
    Province of China, Tajikistan, Tanzania, United Republic of, Thailand,
    Timor-Leste, Tokelau, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey,
    Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United
    Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela,
    Vietnam, Virgin Islands, U.S., Wallis and Futuna, Western Sahara, Yemen,
    Zimbabwe.

    Note that there may be bugs in the FallingRain database. Do not rely on
    this module for navigation.

COPYRIGHT
    Copyright (C) 2002-9, Leon Brocard

LICENSE
    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.

