Kate L Pugh schrieb:
I can only tell you how to do a manual install because I don't use either CPAN.pm or CPANPLUS. It's not difficult though.
Well, i think i can do that. It will work, somehow, so stay tuned for the Hamburg Openguide in January.
Also, what about location information for non-UK cities?
It's not done yet, but you knew that already or you wouldn't have
Yes, i knew that. I am not very good at perl programming, so i think i can't help very much, sorry.
asked. You can use Locales, and you can use the map link, phone, address, etc fields - but not the OS X/OS Y fields. Now I can give you different fields - for latitude/longitude, or if your city is covered by a square grid like the British National Grid, boxes for those co-ordinates. Then the problem is one of *using* the data.
It is quite common to use so-called "Gauss-Krueger Coordinates", these are printed on official maps (they are NOT printed onto the Falkplan (Falkplan is for Hamburg what A-Z is for London)). These are long numerals having latitude and longitude coded into them. They are not square coordinates... There is a quite useful feature: One of germany's mobile phone networks broadcasts the Gauss-Krueger coordinates of their base stations. So people wandering around Hamburg making entries for the guide can easily read location coordinates from their telephone. These are not very accurate, but better than nothing.
Working out distance between places specified by latitude and longitude may be trickier. There is Geo::Distance on CPAN but
How big is the error if we just assume the earth to be a plane instead of a ball? This makes calculation of distances from Latitude/Longitude pretty simple. Hamburg is approx. 50km across.