That would be my post from 1/23/07 Here it is again in case you haven't
found it yet.
Sam Tetherow
Sandhills Wireless
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I've had good luck with Yahoo's Maps service. You have to signup to get
an app id. The API is really simple. Here is a modified chunk of code
from my Dept of Health and Human Services/Google Map mashup for showing
licensed daycare centers in a town.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use LWP::UserAgent;
use XML::Simple;
use CGI::Simple;
my $location="107 W 2nd Street, Valentine, NE 69201";
my $q=new CGI::Simple;
my $safe_loc=$q->url_encode($location);
my
$geocode_url="http://api.local.yahoo.com/MapsService/V1/geocode?appid=$APP_ID&location=$safe";);
my $ua=LWP::UserAgent->new;
my $response=$ua->get($geocode_url);
if ($response->is_error) {
die $response->status_line;
}
my $xml=XMLin($response->content());
print "$xml->{'Result'}->{'Latitude'}, $xml->{'Result'}->{'Longitude'}\n";
Rick Smith wrote:
Someone a bit back shared some code with a list, and I can't for the life of
me find where
I put it, developed some on top of it, and came up with something web based
that was
pretty cool.
hehe. I've got like 7 machines here that I could've picked, and it was a
tiny file... doh!
If had something to do with going to the yahoo developer's network, getting
an ID, and
converting address info into Lat/Long.
Thanks
R
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