A friend does some geographic statistics work. He told me he was manually
entering postal codes into a program one at a time to get the latitude and
longitude.
I figured there might be a module on CPAN. I wrote a short program using Geo::Coder::Canada for him to use. It reads from STDIN so I just piped a CSV file he gave me into the program.
The code finds the first postal code on each line of input so it's kind of
smart when fed a full address or quotes around the postal code. A sample run
looks like:
$ ./geocode-canada.pl
Enter a Canadian Postal Code and press enter.
Repeat until you are done. Press control-c or control-d to exit.
t2s 0b3
t2s 0b3 , Lat: 51.037821 , Long: -114.074626
t2e0c1
t2e0c1 , Lat: 51.053263 , Long: -114.045510
T3C 0X7
T3C 0X7 , Lat: 51.039459 , Long: -114.092120
"T3E 0B1"
T3E 0B1 , Lat: 51.037782 , Long: -114.128998
No postal code found in input
2500 University Drive N.W.
No postal code found in input
Calgary, Alberta,
No postal code found in input
T2N 1N4
T2N 1N4 , Lat: 51.074892 , Long: -114.129012
The source code is geocode-canada.pl.