Perl module Geo::Coder::HostIP
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Geo::Coder::HostIP is designed to provide a Perl OO interface to the
hostip.org project's API for retrieving geocoding information from an
IP address.

It also provides several convenience methods, including writing code
for a Google Map for you (though nothing super complex -- you can add
Javascript, salt and wasabe later to taste).

It provides methods for retrieving a hash of geographical information
where possible, composed of (at best) Country, Country Code, City, State, 
and Letitude and Longitude (in decimal format).

It also uses gethostbyname() to be able to grab this info from hostip.org
(which only accepts numeric IP addresses, not domain names) where possible.

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

DEPENDENCIES

This module requires these other modules and libraries:

  libwww-perl (LWP)
  Carp

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2007 by Sean Cannon

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.7 or,
at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.