map::geocode::nominatim - Resolving geographical names with a
Nominatim service
package require Tcl 8.5
package require http
package require json
package require uri
package require snit
package require map::geocode::nominatim ?0.1?
::map::geocode::nominatim requestor ?-baseurl
url? ?-callback callback? ?-error error
callback?
$cmdprefix result
$cmdprefix errorstring
requestor search query
This package provides a class for accessing geocoding services
which implement the Nominatim interface (see References)
- ::map::geocode::nominatim requestor ?-baseurl
url? ?-callback callback? ?-error error
callback?
- Creates a geocoding request object requestor, which will send its
requests to the Nominatim server.
The result of the command is name.
- -baseurl
url
- The base URL of the Nominatim service. Default value is
OpenStreetMap's service at
http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search A possible free
alternative is at
http://open.mapquestapi.com//nominatim/v1/search
- -callback
cmdprefix
- A command prefix to be invoked when search result become available. The
default setting, active when nothing was specified on object creation, is
to print the result (see below) to stdout. The result of the
command prefix is ignored. Errors thrown by the command prefix are caught
and cause the invokation of the error callback (see option -error
below), with the error message as argument.
The signature of the command prefix is:
- $cmdprefix result
- The result is a list of dictionaries, containing one item per hit.
Each dictionary will have the following entries:
- place_id
- The place ID (FIXME: what's this?)
- licence
- The data licence string
- osm_type
- The OSM type of the location
- osm_id
- FIXME
- boundingbox
- The coordinates of the bounding box (min and max latitude, min and max
longitude)
- lat
- The location's latitude
- lon
- The location's longitude
- display_name
- the location's human readable name
- class
- FIXME
- type
- FIXME
- icon
- FIXME
- -error
cmdprefix
- A command prefix to be invoked when encountering errors. Typically these
are HTTP errors. The default setting, active when nothing was specified on
object creation, is to print the errorstring (see below) to
stderr. The result of the command prefix is ignored. Errors thrown
by the command prefix are passed to higher levels.
The signature of the command prefix is:
- [1]
- http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim
- [2]
- http://open.mapquestapi.com/nominatim/
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