Revision history for Geo-Coder-Free
0.33 Mon 6 Nov 08:31:27 EST 2023
Calling new on a local object now returns a clone rather than setting the defaults in the new object
Some support for reverse_geocode
Added Redis as a prerequisite if REDIS_SERVER is set
Latest DB.pm from NJH-Snippets
Change the mode of the cachedir to 2755
Free.pm/Local.pm: Try hard to support whatever API that the user wants to use
Local.pm: if libpostal fails, try code without
Put the README file into the GETTING STARTED section of the POD
0.32 Wed Jun 21 20:31:01 EDT 2023
Set NA rather than fail on smokers without L:P:https
It's OK to install modules on Github Actions
Reduce the number of calls to libpostal in Local.pm
Only use XML::LibXML::Reader when needed
0.31 Fri Mar 24 17:30:06 EDT 2023
Calling new on an object now returns a clone rather than setting the defaults in the new object
Port to Solaris
Local.pm doesn't contain states/provinces' locations, so quick return on search for those
Use JSON::MaybeXS instead of JSON
Fix truncate
Use perl shell rather than CPAN to install missing modules
Move temporary downloads to their own directory to stop them being installed
Some local matches in US missed in the quick lookup
Die, rather than warn, if the openaddr database can't be opened
0.30 Wed Mar 9 09:47:33 EST 2022
Fix treating "30 Cross Street" as "30 X St"
Latest DB.pm from VWF
Improved handling of house numbers in Local.pm
0.29 Thu Nov 26 14:19:56 EST 2020
Started work on importing data from OpenStreetMaps
using planet.osm.bz2 files in $OSM_HOME
More work to reduce the number of Maxmind results
Removed some false positives in Local.pm
Import US and Canadian data from
https://github.com/dr5hn/countries-states-cities-database.git
set DR5HN_HOME to where you clone it
0.28 Fri Oct 16 21:51:27 EDT 2020
Fixed the manifest
Don't return all the matches in a state/county/province
0.27.1 Thu Oct 15 11:08:18 EDT 2020
Fix https://github.com/nigelhorne/Geo-Coder-Free/issues/47
0.27 Fri Oct 9 20:44:09 EDT 2020
Local.pm: Call _normalize when libpostal is installed
Install LWP::Simple and LWP::Protocol::https if needed
0.26 Thu Oct 8 19:47:45 EDT 2020
Create the MaxMind database directory to download to
Use Geo::Coder::Abbreviations
0.25 Wed Sep 30 22:33:06 EDT 2020
Maxmind: Improved handling of full state names in the US
0.24 Mon Jun 15 11:50:14 EDT 2020
Deal with
https://github.com/apache/commons-csv/commit/914f2c41557bdd3dcde8d10d6f128fa3bb307b11
Makefile.PL: used to not download any file if it exists, now it
will download the file if it's older than a week
0.23 Sat May 16 22:16:30 EDT 2020
WhosOnFirst: Use raw geojson files from GitHub
Don't store items in MaxMind cache when there are more than one match,
it was causing some subsequent searches to fail
Sanity check to MaxMind records
Don't look up where we've already failed to find a location
Save database in Redis server as well if REDIS_SERVER is set
Fixed reverse_geocode in Local.pm for UK addresses
Fixed reverse_geocode in Local.pm when you know the name but not the
number
0.22 Sat 12 Oct 15:14:01 EDT 2019
When looking up Tyne and Wear, also lookup Borough of North Tyneside
Make createdatabase.PL and openaddress.pm agree on how to handle St. Louis, MO
0.21 Tue 16 Jul 20:58:06 EDT 2019
Remove errant debug statement
0.20 Sun 14 Jul 22:52:42 EDT 2019
reverse_geocode starts locally then zooms out a bit
Fix copy and paste error into Local.pm from OpenAddresses.pm
0.19 Wed 17 Apr 17:25:55 EDT 2019
Added reverse_geocode support to MaxMind and Local
0.18 Wed 20 Mar 17:00:52 EDT 2019
Added Geo::Coder::Free::Local
Now return Geo::Location::Point object
0.17 Sat 23 Feb 17:21:41 EST 2019
Maxmind download of worldcitiespop.txt has been removed
0.16 Tue Jan 1 17:57:37 EST 2019
Import GeoName's allCountries data
Remember L:E:AddressParser objects to speed up parsing. RT#127814
Fix uninitialized variable
Error if G:S:P can't extract a state name
0.15 Thu Nov 15 21:10:51 EST 2018
Added alternatives table, for when a place could be listed elsewhere
Support lookups of British counties e.g. 'Kent, England'
0.14 Fri Sep 7 16:07:39 EDT 2018
Work on fixing http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/6b68841a-8cc6-11e8-98d5-bb14e5798fec
Re-enable Lingua::EN::AddressParse usage and prefer over Geo::libpostal
Don't store cities and location names in the database
0.13 Fri Jul 20 16:48:58 EDT 2018
Fix handling of cities with spaces in them
Fix Canadian provinces - everything was going in AB
Improved handling of "LANE"
0.12 Tue Jun 19 09:02:28 EDT 2018
Fix "RESTAURANT" insert where street is known but not number
Improved searches when Geo::Libpostal is not installed
Improved handling of un-normalized input
Removed duplicate code
Add current country on web interface
Added bin/address_lookup
No need to give openaddr argument to new() if OPENADDR_HOME is set
0.11 Fri Jun 8 17:27:55 EDT 2018
Started work on scantext support
Fixed some calls in list mode which returned a scalar
Many WOF records were not being imported
Only fall back to Geo::StreetAddress::US as last resort
Don't include NULL fields in the JSON output
Better at finding venues when libpostal is not installed
Tighten OpenAddresses validation
0.10 Fri 11 May 18:30:54 EDT 2018
Street numbers were not being indexed
Add data that I know with the GPS program on my phone
Support "DR" for "Drive"
Import GB data from whosonfirst.org data
Maxmind - no longer croak for bad args
0.09 Tue Apr 17 21:34:01 EDT 2018
Consolidated date in createdatabase
Load Australian data
Added basic Australian search (town, state, country)
Removed the OLDCODE
0.08 Sun Apr 15 11:49:55 EDT 2018
Download admin1 and admin2 directly from MaxMind
Download cities.sql from geocode.nigelhorne.com
0.07 Tue Apr 3 07:40:46 EDT 2018
Stash results in cache, workaround for very slow libpostal load
(minutes!!) on scaleway machines
Fix search for just state/province
Added the run method
0.06 Thu Mar 29 09:12:56 EDT 2018
Fix Github issue 14
Updated to latest MaxMind databases
Started support for a local copy of results.openaddresses.io
Fixed Canadian lookups
Match a street even if the house number isn't known
Started geocoder website - see cgi-bin
0.05 Sun Jan 28 17:33:33 EST 2018
Fix http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/b10c956b-6bf9-1014-9a47-dc46d49c4260
Allow known peculiarities to be found
Improve handling of US lookups
Added DISTINCT when only wanting one row
0.04 Thu Oct 26 22:05:54 EDT 2017
Fix throw in http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/ab86a142-b8d9-11e7-a1cf-bb670eaac09d
Various speedups
Fixed uninitialized variable
Fix http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/26e07a7e-b9e9-11e7-a1cf-bb670eaac09d
0.03 Sun Oct 22 10:46:22 EDT 2017
Fixed spelling mistake
0.02 Sun Oct 22 10:31:35 EDT 2017
Mention that reverse isn't supported
Added createdatabase.PL
Added ua
0.01 Sun 15 Oct 14:24:23 EDT 2017
First Version