At 11:56 05/03/2008, you wrote:
Barry Hunter wrote:
Seems to do reasonably well
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http%3A%2F%2Fws.geonames.org%2FrssToGeoRSS%3Ftype%3Dkml%26feedUrl%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fnewsrss.bbc.co.uk%252Frss%252Fnewsonline_uk_edition%252Fuk%252Frss.xml
Of course geocoding free text stories is still an imprecise science.
Indeed - I like the way that it appears to dither between
interpreting "UK" as the United Kingdom or the Ukraine...
And, of course, the way it seems to think that Calais is in Russia.
Pete
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