Thu, 18 Aug 2005
Geo::Google -- Pretty Good
I've been having a fiddle with the Geo::Google perl module
today, the simple explanation is that the module performs geographical
queries using Google Maps. And it works well. Just it's not very
accurate...
Geo::Google takes an address and returns a longitude and latitude from Google Maps. With these you can create points on your own GMap applications. After feeding it a dozen addresses with different levels of completeness (full postcode, partial postcode, city and town, just city etc.) I'm not that impressed with it's accuracy when putting locations on the map. I'm not sure if it's my sample data set or just that the UK data isn't that great but every location I've passed in has been it's off by a fair way. Still that's a GMaps problem, the module itself works fine.
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Posted: 2005/08/18 22:40 | /tools/commandline | Permanent link to this entry | This entry and same date
Unixdaemon.net Upgrades
I've just finished upgrading the server that hosts my mail and websites
from Debian woody to sarge. The upgrade itself was pretty painless (except
for apache vanishing...) and should now allow me to install modern perl
modules without a lot of messing around. If you've tried to mail me and got
a bounce then please retry, everything should be working again now. Of
course if it isn't then you can't email me to let me know anyway ;)
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Posted: 2005/08/18 17:29 | /meta | Permanent link to this entry | This entry and same date
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