NAME

WebService::Wikimapia - Interface to Wikimapia API.

VERSION

Version 0.09

DESCRIPTION

Wikimapia API is a system that allows you to receive data from Wikimapia map and that can easily be integrate Wikimapia Geo Data into your external application / web site. And it's all free. You need to get the API Key first from here. Please note API is still in developing stage (beta).

Recent changes to the API by Wikimapia, marked the method search(), box() and object() deprecated.

CONSTRUCTOR

The only key required is 'api_key' which is an api key.Rest of them are optional.

+----------+----------------------------------------------------------------+
| Key      | Description                                                    |
+----------+----------------------------------------------------------------+
| api_key  | Wikimapia API Key.                                             |
| page     | This is page number. 1 is default.                             |
| count    | Determines the number of results/page. 50 is default.          |
| language | Language in ISO 639-1 format. Default is 'en'.                 |
+----------+----------------------------------------------------------------+

use strict; use warnings;
use WebService::Wikimapia;

my $key       = 'Your_API_Key';
my $wikimapia = WebService::Wikimapia->new({ api_key => $api_key });

LANGUAGE

+-----------------------+----------------+
| Language Name         | ISO 639-1 Code |
+-----------------------+----------------+
| Abkhaz                |       ab       |
| Afar                  |       aa       |
| Afrikaans             |       af       |
| Akan                  |       ak       |
| Albanian              |       sq       |
| Amharic               |       am       |
| Arabic                |       ar       |
| Aragonese             |       an       |
| Armenian              |       hy       |
| Assamese              |       as       |
| Avaric                |       av       |
| Avestan               |       ae       |
| Aymara                |       ay       |
| Azerbaijani           |       az       |
| Bambara               |       bm       |
| Bashkir               |       ba       |
| Basque                |       eu       |
| Belarusian            |       be       |
| Bengali               |       bn       |
| Bihari                |       bh       |
| Bislama               |       bi       |
| Bosnian               |       bs       |
| Breton                |       br       |
| Bulgarian             |       bg       |
| Burmese               |       my       |
| Catalan               |       ca       |
| Chamorro              |       ch       |
| Chechen               |       ce       |
| Chichewa              |       ny       |
| Chinese               |       zh       |
| Chuvash               |       cv       |
| Cornish               |       kw       |
| Corsican              |       co       |
| Cree                  |       cr       |
| Croatian              |       hr       |
| Czech                 |       cs       |
| Danish                |       da       |
| Divehi                |       dv       |
| Dutch                 |       nl       |
| Dzongkha              |       dz       |
| English               |       en       |
| Esperanto             |       eo       |
| Estonian              |       et       |
| Ewe                   |       ee       |
| Faroese               |       fo       |
| Fijian                |       fj       |
| Finnish               |       fi       |
| French                |       fr       |
| Fula                  |       ff       |
| Galician              |       gl       |
| Georgian              |       ka       |
| German                |       de       |
| Greek, Modern         |       el       |
| Guarani               |       gn       |
| Gujarati              |       gu       |
| Haitian               |       ht       |
| Hausa                 |       ha       |
| Hebrew (modern)       |       he       |
| Herero                |       hz       |
| Hindi                 |       hi       |
| Hiri Motu             |       ho       |
| Hungarian             |       hu       |
| Interlingua           |       ia       |
| Indonesian            |       id       |
| Interlingue           |       ie       |
| Irish                 |       ga       |
| Igbo                  |       ig       |
| Inupiaq               |       ik       |
| Ido                   |       io       |
| Icelandic             |       is       |
| Italian               |       it       |
| Inuktitut             |       iu       |
| Japanese              |       ja       |
| Javanese              |       jv       |
| Kalaallisut           |       kl       |
| Kannada               |       kn       |
| Kanuri                |       kr       |
| Kashmiri              |       ks       |
| Kazaq                 |       kk       |
| Khmer                 |       km       |
| Kikuyu                |       ki       |
| Kinyarwanda           |       rw       |
| Kirghiz               |       ky       |
| Komi                  |       kv       |
| Kongo                 |       kg       |
| Korean                |       ko       |
| Kurdish               |       ku       |
| Kwanyama              |       kj       |
| Latin                 |       la       |
| Luxembourgish         |       lb       |
| Luganda               |       lg       |
| Limburgish            |       li       |
| Lingala               |       ln       |
| Lao                   |       lo       |
| Lithuanian            |       lt       |
| Luba-Katanga          |       lu       |
| Latvian               |       lv       |
| Manx                  |       gv       |
| Macedonian            |       mk       |
| Malagasy              |       mg       |
| Malay                 |       ms       |
| Malayalam             |       ml       |
| Maltese               |       mt       |
| Ma-ori                |       mi       |
| Marathi               |       mr       |
| Marshallese           |       mh       |
| Mongolian             |       mn       |
| Nauru                 |       na       |
| Navajo                |       nv       |
| Norwegian             |       nb       |
| North Ndebele         |       nd       |
| Nepali                |       ne       |
| Ndonga                |       ng       |
| Norwegian Nynorsk     |       nn       |
| Norwegian             |       no       |
| Nuosu                 |       ii       |
| South Ndebele         |       nr       |
| Occitan               |       oc       |
| Ojibwe                |       oj       |
| Old Church Slavonic   |       cu       |
| Oromo                 |       om       |
| Oriya                 |       or       |
| Ossetian              |       os       |
| Punjabi               |       pa       |
| Pa-li                 |       pi       |
| Persian               |       fa       |
| Polish                |       pl       |
| Pashto                |       ps       |
| Portuguese            |       pt       |
| Quechua               |       qu       |
| Romansh               |       rm       |
| Kirundi               |       rn       |
| Romanian              |       ro       |
| Russian               |       ru       |
| Sanskrit              |       sa       |
| Sardinian             |       sc       |
| Sindhi                |       sd       |
| Northern Sami         |       se       |
| Samoan                |       sm       |
| Sango                 |       sg       |
| Serbian               |       sr       |
| Scottish Gaelic;      |       gd       |
| Shona                 |       sn       |
| Sinhala               |       si       |
| Slovak                |       sk       |
| Slovene               |       sl       |
| Somali                |       af       |
| Southern Sotho        |       st       |
| Spanish               |       es       |
| Sundanese             |       su       |
| Swahili               |       sw       |
| Swati                 |       ss       |
| Swedish               |       sv       |
| Tamil                 |       ta       |
| Telugu                |       te       |
| Tajik                 |       tg       |
| Thai                  |       th       |
| Tigrinya              |       ti       |
| Tibetan Standard      |       bo       |
| Turkmen               |       tk       |
| Tagalog               |       tl       |
| Tswana                |       tn       |
| Tonga (Tonga Islands) |       to       |
| Turkish               |       tr       |
| Tsonga                |       ts       |
| Tatar                 |       tt       |
| Twi                   |       tw       |
| Tahitian              |       ty       |
| Uighur                |       ug       |
| Ukrainian             |       uk       |
| Urdu                  |       ur       |
| Uzbek                 |       uz       |
| Venda                 |       ve       |
| Vietnamese            |       vi       |
| Volapuk               |       vo       |
| Walloon               |       wa       |
| Welsh                 |       cy       |
| Wolof                 |       wo       |
| Western Frisian       |       fy       |
| Xhosa                 |       xh       |
| Yiddish               |       yi       |
| Yoruba                |       yo       |
| Zhuang                |       za       |
| Zulu                  |       zu       |
+-----------------------+----------------+

METHODS

place_getbyid()

Returns an object of type WebService::Wikimapia::Place.

+----------+----------------------------------------------------------------+
| Key      | Description                                                    |
+----------+----------------------------------------------------------------+
| id       | Place Id (required).                                           |
| language | Language in ISO 639-1 format. Default is 'en'.                 |
+----------+----------------------------------------------------------------+

use strict; use warnings;
use WebService::Wikimapia;

my $api_key   = 'Your_API_Key';
my $wikimapia = WebService::Wikimapia->new({ api_key => $api_key });
my $place     = $wikimapia->place_getbyid({ id => 55 });

print "Place title: ", $place->title, "\n";

place_getbyarea()

Returns ref to the list of object of type WebService::Wikimapia::Place.

+----------+----------------------------------------------------------------+
| Key      | Description                                                    |
+----------+----------------------------------------------------------------+
| lon_min  | Longiture Min.                                                 |
| lat_min  | Latitude Min.                                                  |
| lon_max  | Longitude Max.                                                 |
| lat_max  | Latitude Max.                                                  |
| x        | Tile's x co-ordinate.                                          |
| y        | Tile's y co-ordinate.                                          |
| z        | Tile's z co-ordinate.                                          |
| page     | This is page number. 1 is default.                             |
| count    | Determines the number of results/page. 50 is default.          |
| language | Language in ISO 639-1 format. Default is 'en'.                 |
+----------+----------------------------------------------------------------+

use strict; use warnings;
use WebService::Wikimapia;

my $api_key   = 'Your_API_Key';
my $wikimapia = WebService::Wikimapia->new({ api_key => $api_key });
my $places    = $wikimapia->place_getbyarea({
    'lon_min' => 2.292493,
    'lat_min' => 48.8590143,
    'lon_max' => 2.293493,
    'lat_max' => 48.8599143
});

print "Place title: ", $places->[0]->title, "\n";

place_getnearest()

Returns ref to the list of object of type WebService::Wikimapia::Place.

+----------+----------------------------------------------------------------+
| Key      | Description                                                    |
+----------+----------------------------------------------------------------+
| lon      | Longitude.                                                     |
| lat      | Latitude.                                                      |
| count    | Determines the number of results/page. 50 is default.          |
| language | Language in ISO 639-1 format. Default is 'en'.                 |
+----------+----------------------------------------------------------------+

use strict; use warnings;
use WebService::Wikimapia;

my $api_key   = 'Your_API_Key';
my $wikimapia = WebService::Wikimapia->new({ api_key => $api_key });
my $places    = $wikimapia->place_getnearest({ 'lon' => 2.29451, 'lat' => 48.858252 });

print "Place title: ", $places->[0]->title, "\n";

place_search()

Returns ref to the list of object of type WebService::Wikimapia::Place.

+----------+----------------------------------------------------------------+
| Key      | Description                                                    |
+----------+----------------------------------------------------------------+
| q        | Query to search in wikimapia (UTF-8).                          |
| lat      | Coordinates of the "search point" lat means latitude.          |
| lon      | Coordinates of the "search point" lon means longitude.         |
| page     | This is page number. 1 is default.                             |
| count    | Determines the number of results/page. 50 is default.          |
| language | Language in ISO 639-1 format. Default is 'en'.                 |
+----------+----------------------------------------------------------------+

use strict; use warnings;
use WebService::Wikimapia;

my $api_key   = 'Your_API_Key';
my $wikimapia = WebService::Wikimapia->new({ api_key => $api_key });
my $places    = $wikimapia->place_search({ q => 'Recreation', lat => 37.7887088, lon => -122.4997044 });

print "Place title: ", $places->[0]->title, "\n";

street_getbyid()

Returns an object of type WebService::Wikimapia::Street.

+----------+----------------------------------------------------------------+
| Key      | Description                                                    |
+----------+----------------------------------------------------------------+
| id       | Street Id (required).                                          |
| language | Language in ISO 639-1 format. Default is 'en'.                 |
+----------+----------------------------------------------------------------+

use strict; use warnings;
use WebService::Wikimapia;

my $api_key   = 'Your_API_Key';
my $wikimapia = WebService::Wikimapia->new({ api_key => $api_key });
my $street    = $wikimapia->street_getbyid({ id => 1 });

print "Street title: ", $street->title, "\n";

category_getbyid()

Returns an object of type WebService::Wikimapia::Category.

+----------+----------------------------------------------------------------+
| Key      | Description                                                    |
+----------+----------------------------------------------------------------+
| id       | Category Id (required).                                        |
| language | Language in ISO 639-1 format. Default is 'en'.                 |
+----------+----------------------------------------------------------------+

use strict; use warnings;
use WebService::Wikimapia;

my $api_key   = 'Your_API_Key';
my $wikimapia = WebService::Wikimapia->new({ api_key => $api_key });
my $category  = $wikimapia->category_getbyid({  id => 203 });

print "Category name: ", $category->name, "\n";

category_getall()

Returns ref to the list of object of type WebService::Wikimapia::Category.

+----------+----------------------------------------------------------------+
| Key      | Description                                                    |
+----------+----------------------------------------------------------------+
| page     | This is page number. 1 is default.                             |
| count    | Determines the number of results/page. 50 is default.          |
| language | Language in ISO 639-1 format. Default is 'en'.                 |
+----------+----------------------------------------------------------------+

use strict; use warnings;
use WebService::Wikimapia;

my $api_key    = 'Your_API_Key';
my $wikimapia  = WebService::Wikimapia->new({ api_key => $api_key });
my $categories = $wikimapia->category_getall;

print "Category name: ", $categories->[0]->name, "\n";

search() [DEPRECATED]

Returns ref to the list object of type WebService::Wikimapia::Place.

+-----+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Key | Description                                                         |
+-----+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
| q   | Query to search in wikimapia (UTF-8).                               |
| lat | Coordinates of the "search point" lat means latitude.               |
| lon | Coordinates of the "search point" lon means longitude.              |
+-----+---------------------------------------------------------------------+

use strict; use warnings;
use WebService::Wikimapia;

my $api_key   = 'Your_API_Key';
my $wikimapia = WebService::Wikimapia->new({ api_key => $api_key });
my $places    = $wikimapia->search({ q => 'Recreation', lat => 37.7887088, lon => -122.4997044 });

print "Place name: ", $places->[0]->name, "\n";

box() [DEPRECATED]

Returns ref to the list of object of type WebService::Wikimapia::Place.

+---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Key     | Description                                                       |
+---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
| bbox    | Coordinates of the selected box [lon_min,lat_min,lon_max,lat_max].|
| lon_min | Longiture Min.                                                    |
| lat_min | Latitude Min.                                                     |
| lon_max | Longitude Max.                                                    |
| lat_max | Latitude Max.                                                     |
| x       | Tile's x co-ordinate.                                             |
| y       | Tile's y co-ordinate.                                             |
| z       | Tile's z co-ordinate.                                             |
+---------+-------------------------------------------------------------------+

use strict; use warnings;
use WebService::Wikimapia;

my $api_key   = 'Your_API_Key';
my $wikimapia = WebService::Wikimapia->new({ api_key => $api_key });
my $places    = $wikimapia->box({ bbox => '37.617188,55.677586,37.70507,55.7271128' });

print "Place name: ", $places->[0]->name, "\n";

object() [DEPRECATED]

Returns an object of type WebService::Wikimapia::Object.

+---------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
| Key     | Description                                                     |
+---------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
| id      | Identifier of the object you want to get information about.     |
+---------+-----------------------------------------------------------------+

use strict; use warnings;
use WebService::Wikimapia;

my $api_key   = 'Your_API_Key';
my $wikimapia = WebService::Wikimapia->new({ api_key => $api_key });
my $object    = $wikimapia->object(22139);

print "Title: ", $object->title, "\n";

AUTHOR

Mohammad S Anwar, <mohammad.anwar at yahoo.com>

REPOSITORY

https://github.com/manwar/WebService-Wikimapia

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-webservice-wikimapia at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=WebService-Wikimapia. I will be notified and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc WebService::Wikimapia

You can also look for information at:

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2011 - 2015 Mohammad S Anwar.

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