Wed, 12 Oct 2005
Where (In the UK) is That Number?
After a pretty much technology free day at work I wanted to actually do
something hands on before the day was over. After a flurry of reading
and deleting of of blog posts it looked like the buzz word of the day was
(still) Google Maps. So off I went.
With the aid of the excellent Number::Phone and the not too bad Geo::Google, which can't seem to handle Scottish towns, I put together a small script which displays the town a phone number is from using Google Maps. To try it out enter a phone number in the field below. You can skip the leading +, and/or the country code (44). It's also mostly OK with hyphens, spaces and other bits of cruft.
Disclaimer: I'm not logging the numbers entered anywhere.
Now for some caveats. It only works for Britain and Wales. Geo::Google doesn't do Scotland. It doesn't have support for the US yet. It only shows things on a town level. It has ugly error messages. But it does mostly work if none of those restrictions apply :)
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