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2006/11/20

Geocoder.jaのperlライブラリモジュールをJiro Nishiguchiさんが作成してくださいました。

CPANからダウンロード出来ます。
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Geo-Coder-Ja/

NishiguchiさんのBLOGはこちらですので併せて参考にしてください。
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/spiritloose/20061120/1163983849

大変ありがとうございます。

Project description:

Functionalities

• Japanese Geo-coding capability is independent from any databases.
• Geo-coding module and data can be stored in memory, so it can return 100,000 longitude and latitude points per 1 second.
• Can handles multiple characters code such as Shift-JIS, UTF-8 and EUC.
• Provides text normalize function can handle several types of address spelling.
• Can handle not only government free address data but also commercial address data such as iPC.
  

Limitations:

• It cannot handle English character, Japanese only.
• It cannot handle street address system, Japanese point based system only.