Do you mean gutenmap? http://mappinghacks.com/projects/gutenmap/
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Tom Longson (nym) <[email protected]>wrote: > I believe Chris Schmidt was working on this at some point? > > Cheers, > Tom Longson > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Kathleen Danielson > <[email protected]> wrote: > > http://clavin.bericotechnologies.com/ > > > > This might be what you're looking for. > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Catherine D'Ignazio <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> > >> Hello - > >> > >> I'm a researcher at the Center for Civic Media looking at mapping news > >> articles. > >> > >> I need to find a service, API or software that will take unstructured > >> text - news articles - and return me a list of the places (or > >> geolocated points) referenced by the text. > >> > >> Basically I need exactly this product -- Yahoo Placespotter by Yahoo - > >> http://developer.yahoo.com/boss/geo/ > >> > >> But that's super expensive. Do you know of open source versions of > >> this kind of thing? OpenCalais looks somewhat promising. I've looked > >> at some more general NLP projects out of universities but it seems > >> like something specific to geo information will do a much better job. > >> > >> I've started a google doc to evaluate different products & projects > here: > >> > >> Place Data Extraction Engines > >> > >> > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlTJHPRRAN2AdHUzU19INkU0WnI3NURKd041QzNDMFE#gid=0 > >> > >> Any thoughts much appreciated, > >> Catherine > >> > >> > >> ///////////////////////////// > >> Catherine D'Ignazio > >> Research Assistant, MIT Media Lab Center for Civic Media > >> [email protected] || [email protected] || @kanarinka || > >> +1 617 501 2441 || www.kanarinka.com > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Geowanking mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Geowanking mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org >
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