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- bri Sent from my iPhone On Feb 15, 2013, at 15:29, "Mr. Puneet Kishor" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
