Subject: | cant cope with coordinates near to meridians |
The module currently 'dies' if a lat/long is close to zero
(because perl converts it to scientific notion but the script checks it as a string!)
- this is a problem when the coordinate is close to the Greenwich
meridian in the UK!
to Fix, update line 73 of Geography\NationalGrid.pm to
} elsif ($degrees !~ m/^-?[\d\.]+(e-?\d+)?$/) {
there is probably a better way to check for a number than using a RegExp