Wasn't this (or something like this) offered by Metacarta for a fee?
On 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 >>> .. _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
