Locale::Places - Translate places between different languages using http://download.geonames.org/

Version 0.11

Translates places between different languages, for example London is Londres in French.

Create a Locale::Places object.

Takes one optional parameter, directory, which tells the object where to directory containing GB.sql and US.sql If that parameter isn't given, the module will attempt to find the databases, but that can't be guaranteed. Any other options are passed to the underlying database driver.

Translate a city into a different language. Takes one mandatory argument: 'place'. It also takes two other arguments: 'from' and 'to', at least one of which must be given. If neither $to nor $from is given, the code makes a best guess based on the environment. If no translation can be found, returns place in the original language. Takes an optional argument 'country' which can be either GB (the default) or US which is the country of that 'place' is in.

use Locale::Places;

# Prints "Douvres"
print Locale::Places->new()->translate({ place => 'Dover', country => 'GB', from => 'en', to => 'fr' });

# Prints "Douvres" if we're working on a French system
print Locale::Places->new()->translate('Dover');

Translate to the given language, where the routine's name will be the target language.

# Prints 'Virginie', since that's Virginia in French
print $places->fr({ place => 'Virginia', from => 'en', country => 'US' });

Nigel Horne, <njh at bandsman.co.uk>

Only supports places in GB and US at the moment.

Canterbury no longer translates to Cantorbéry in French. This is a problem with the data, which has this line:

16324587    2653877 fr      Canterbury      1

which overrides the translation by setting the 'isPreferredName' flag

Locale::Country::Multilingual to translate country names.

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

perldoc Locale::Places

You can also look for information at:

• MetaCPAN

  https://metacpan.org/release/Locale-Places

• GitHub

  https://github.com/nigelhorne/Locale-Places

• CPANTS

  http://cpants.cpanauthors.org/dist/Locale-Places

• CPAN Testers' Matrix

  http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=Locale-Places

• CPAN Testers Dependencies

  http://deps.cpantesters.org/?module=Locale::Places

• Geonames Discussion Group

  https://groups.google.com/g/geonames

Copyright 2020-2024 Nigel Horne.

This program is released under the following licence: GPL2

This product uses data from geonames, http://download.geonames.org.