Geographic query

Stegalex has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have been asked to QUIKLY put some content together for my U.S. company's foreign travel portal. What I need to do is to ask a user where they are travelling to and based on their input (e.g. "Moscow, Russia") I need to present them with some relevant travel-related information such as:

airport codes
weather
U.S. Consulates/Embassies
currency conversion
hotels
per-diem rates
city guides
other relevant traveler information about the destination

Are there any Perl modules that can help me to lookup this information based on a city/country combination? I have been trawling around for xml/rss feeds for hours to no avail. My first thought was to plug into the Google API although I can't think of a way to pull in say relevant currency rates based on the city/country string. Thanks for your help and a Happy New Year to all!

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Re: Geographic query by b10m (Vicar) on Dec 30, 2004 at 20:05 UTC
Once again, CPAN is your friend! A couple of modules that pop into my mind though, are: Geo::METAR (weather) WebService::CIA ("facts") Finance::Currency::Convert::XE (currency) WWW::Wikipedia ("info") ... -- b10m All code is usually tested, but rarely trusted.	[reply]
Re: Geographic query by csuhockey3 (Curate) on Dec 30, 2004 at 20:21 UTC
Have a look at this thread about mapping and GIS that should have some relevant information.	[reply]

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