Geo-Coder-HostIP version 0.01 ============================= 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.