NAME

       Geo::Coder::Googlev3 - Google Maps v3 Geocoding API

SYNOPSIS

           use Geo::Coder::Googlev3;

           my $geocoder = Geo::Coder::Googlev3->new;
           my $location  = $geocoder->geocode(location => 'Brandenburger Tor, Berlin');
           my @locations = $geocoder->geocode(location => 'Berliner Straße, Berlin, Germany');

DESCRIPTION

       Use this module just like Geo::Coder::Google. Note that no "apikey" is used in Google's v3 API, and the
       returned data structure differs.

       Please check also <https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/> for more information
       about Google's Geocoding API and especially usage limits.

   CONSTRUCTOR
       new
               $geocoder = Geo::Coder::Googlev3->new;
               $geocoder = Geo::Coder::Googlev3->new(language => 'de', gl => 'es');

           Creates a new geocoding object.

           The "ua" parameter may be supplied to override the default LWP::UserAgent object. The default
           "LWP::UserAgent" object sets the "timeout" to 15 seconds and enables the "env_proxy" option.

           The Geo::Coder::Google's "oe" parameter is not supported.

           The parameters "region", "language", "bounds", and "key" are also accepted. The "bounds" parameter
           should be in the form:

              [{lat => ..., lng => ...}, {lat => ..., lng => ...}]

           The parameter "sensor" should be set to the string "true" if the geocoding request comes from a
           device with a location sensor (see
           <https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/#GeocodingRequests>).  There's no
           default.

           By default queries are done using "http". By setting the "use_https" parameter to a true value
           "https" is used.

   METHODS
       geocode
               $location = $geocoder->geocode(location => $location);
               @locations = $geocoder->geocode(location => $location);

           Queries $location to Google Maps geocoding API. In scalar context it returns a hash reference of the
           first (best matching?) location. In list context it returns a list of such hash references.

           The returned data structure looks like this:

             {
               "formatted_address" => "Brandenburger Tor, Pariser Platz 7, 10117 Berlin, Germany",
               "types" => [
                 "point_of_interest",
                 "establishment"
               ],
               "address_components" => [
                 {
                   "types" => [
                     "point_of_interest",
                     "establishment"
                   ],
                   "short_name" => "Brandenburger Tor",
                   "long_name" => "Brandenburger Tor"
                 },
                 {
                   "types" => [
                     "street_number"
                   ],
                   "short_name" => 7,
                   "long_name" => 7
                 },
                 {
                   "types" => [
                     "route"
                   ],
                   "short_name" => "Pariser Platz",
                   "long_name" => "Pariser Platz"
                 },
                 {
                   "types" => [
                     "sublocality",
                     "political"
                   ],
                   "short_name" => "Mitte",
                   "long_name" => "Mitte"
                 },
                 {
                   "types" => [
                     "locality",
                     "political"
                   ],
                   "short_name" => "Berlin",
                   "long_name" => "Berlin"
                 },
                 {
                   "types" => [
                     "administrative_area_level_2",
                     "political"
                   ],
                   "short_name" => "Berlin",
                   "long_name" => "Berlin"
                 },
                 {
                   "types" => [
                     "administrative_area_level_1",
                     "political"
                   ],
                   "short_name" => "Berlin",
                   "long_name" => "Berlin"
                 },
                 {
                   "types" => [
                     "country",
                     "political"
                   ],
                   "short_name" => "DE",
                   "long_name" => "Germany"
                 },
                 {
                   "types" => [
                     "postal_code"
                   ],
                   "short_name" => 10117,
                   "long_name" => 10117
                 }
               ],
               "geometry" => {
                 "viewport" => {
                   "southwest" => {
                     "lat" => "52.5094785",
                     "lng" => "13.3617711"
                   },
                   "northeast" => {
                     "lat" => "52.5230586",
                     "lng" => "13.3937859"
                   }
                 },
                 "location" => {
                   "lat" => "52.5162691",
                   "lng" => "13.3777785"
                 },
                 "location_type" => "APPROXIMATE"
               }
             };

           The raw option may be set to a true value to get the uninterpreted, raw result from the API. Just the
           JSON data will be translated into a perl hash.

               $raw_result = $geocoder->geocode(location => $location, raw => 1);

       region
           Accessor for the "region" parameter. The value should be a country code ("es", "dk", "us", etc). Use
           this to tell the webservice to prefer matches from that region. See the Google documentation for more
           information.

       language
           Accessor for the "language" parameter.

       bounds
           Accessor for the "bounds" parameter.

       sensor
           Accessor for the "sensor" parameter.

AUTHOR

       Slaven Rezic <srezic@cpan.org>

       This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl
       itself.

SEE ALSO

       Geo::Coder::Google, Geo::Coder::Many.