Hi all - Thanks so much for the suggestions. I've rolled them all into my document which is here in case people are interested: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlTJHPRRAN2AdHUzU19INkU0WnI3NURKd041QzNDMFE#gid=0
Of these- the most promising looks like CLAVIN but I have yet to test any of them at length. 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 On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 7:46 PM, sophia parafina <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
