NAME

Wiki::Toolkit::Plugin::Locator::Grid - A Wiki::Toolkit plugin to manage co-ordinate data.

DESCRIPTION

Access to and calculations using co-ordinate metadata supplied to a Wiki::Toolkit wiki when writing a node.

Note: This is read-only access. If you want to write to a node's metadata, you need to do it using the write_node method of Wiki::Toolkit.

We assume that the points are located on a flat, square grid with unit squares of side 1 metre.

SYNOPSIS

  use Wiki::Toolkit;
  use Wiki::Toolkit::Plugin::Locator::Grid;

  my $wiki = Wiki::Toolkit->new( ... );
  my $locator = Wiki::Toolkit::Plugin::Locator::Grid->new;
  $wiki->register_plugin( plugin => $locator );

  $wiki->write_node( "Jerusalem Tavern", "A good pub", $checksum,
                     { x => 531674, y => 181950 } ) or die "argh";

  # Just retrieve the co-ordinates.
  my ( $x, $y ) = $locator->coordinates( node => "Jerusalem Tavern" );

  # Find the straight-line distance between two nodes, in metres.
  my $distance = $locator->distance( from_node => "Jerusalem Tavern",
                                     to_node   => "Calthorpe Arms" );

  # Find all the things within 200 metres of a given place.
  my @others = $locator->find_within_distance( node   => "Albion",
                                               metres => 200 );

  # Maybe our wiki calls the x and y co-ordinates something else.
  my $locator = Wiki::Toolkit::Plugin::Locator::Grid->new(
                                                       x => "os_x",
                                                       y => "os_y",
                                                     );

METHODS

new

  # By default we assume that x and y co-ordinates are stored in
  # metadata called "x" and "y".
  my $locator = Wiki::Toolkit::Plugin::Locator::Grid->new;

  # But maybe our wiki calls the x and y co-ordinates something else.
  my $locator = Wiki::Toolkit::Plugin::Locator::Grid->new(
                                                       x => "os_x",
                                                       y => "os_y",
                                                     );

x_field

  my $x_field = $locator->x_field;

An accessor, returns the name of the metadata field used to store the x-coordinate.

y_field

  my $y_field = $locator->y_field;

An accessor, returns the name of the metadata field used to store the y-coordinate.

coordinates

  my ($x, $y) = $locator->coordinates( node => "Jerusalem Tavern" );

Returns the x and y co-ordinates stored as metadata last time the node was written.

distance

  # Find the straight-line distance between two nodes, in metres.
  my $distance = $locator->distance( from_node => "Jerusalem Tavern",
                                     to_node   => "Calthorpe Arms" );

  # Or in kilometres, and between a node and a point.
  my $distance = $locator->distance( from_x  => 531467,
                                     from_y  => 183246,
                                     to_node => "Duke of Cambridge",
                                     unit    => "kilometres" );

Defaults to metres if unit is not supplied or is not recognised. Recognised units at the moment: metres, kilometres.

Returns undef if one of the endpoints does not exist, or does not have both co-ordinates defined. The node specification of an endpoint overrides the x/y co-ords if both specified (but don't do that).

Note: Works to the nearest metre. Well, actually, calls int and rounds down, but if anyone cares about that they can send a patch.

find_within_distance

  # Find all the things within 200 metres of a given place.
  my @others = $locator->find_within_distance( node   => "Albion",
                                               metres => 200 );

  # Or within 200 metres of a given location.
  my @things = $locator->find_within_distance( x      => 530774,
                                               y      => 182260,
                                               metres => 200 );

Units currently understood: metres, kilometres. If both node and x/y are supplied then node takes precedence. Croaks if insufficient start point data supplied.

SEE ALSO

• Wiki::Toolkit

• OpenGuides - an application that uses this plugin.

AUTHOR

Kake Pugh (kake@earth.li). The Wiki::Toolkit team (http://www.wiki-toolkit.org/)

COPYRIGHT

     Copyright (C) 2004 Kake L Pugh.  All Rights Reserved.
     Copyright (C) 2006 the Wiki::Toolkit Team. All Rights Reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

CREDITS

This module is based heavily on (and is the replacement for) Wiki::Toolkit::Plugin::Locator::UK.

The following thanks are due to people who helped with Wiki::Toolkit::Plugin::Locator::UK: Nicholas Clark found a very silly bug in a pre-release version, oops :) Stephen White got me thinking in the right way to implement find_within_distance. Marcel Gruenauer helped me make find_within_distance work properly with postgres.