Acme-Geo-Whitwell-Name This module allows you to convert latitudes and longitudes to Steadman Whitwell's "rational geographic nomeclature": unique place names that are generated directly from the latitude and longitude.[1] Whitwell despaired of the many duplicate Springfields and Washingtons in the United States, and proposed this nomenclature to prevent duplicate placenames. The system is set up to use latitudes and longitudes precise to two decimal places; using standard maximum measurements for latitude and longitude[2], this allows a grid of approximately 800 feet by 1300 feet to be overlaid on the globe. Most towns and villages are at least this big, so 2-decimal precision is sufficient to give each one a unique name. Allowing for the utter lunacy of the whole scheme, it has a certain obsessive charm. This module is at its core a simple text transformation, so it requires very little beyond core Perl functions. It does not at present do geocoding, so you will have to determine the latitude and longitude yourself. [1] New Harmony Gazette, Vol. I, pp. 226-227. [2] http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/warmup/aquifer/html/distance.html INSTALLATION To install this module, run the following commands: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command. perldoc Acme::Geo::Whitwell::Name You can also look for information at: RT, CPAN's request tracker http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Acme-Geo-Whitwell-Name AnnoCPAN, Annotated CPAN documentation http://annocpan.org/dist/Acme-Geo-Whitwell-Name CPAN Ratings http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Acme-Geo-Whitwell-Name Search CPAN http://search.cpan.org/dist/Acme-Geo-Whitwell-Name COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE Copyright (C) 2008 Joe McMahon This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.