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Friday, May 22. 2009
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A few new datasets available from Yahoo
First off, the shapefiles built off the geotagged Flickr photos is now available for download. Second, you can get the WEO IDs database. Details. The are under different Creative Commons licenses.
The "data" in these have been available via API, but if you want them local for some reason, now's the time to download.
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Thursday, May 21. 2009
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Yahoo Placemaker: Location Parsing from Raw Text
The new service from Yahoo!, Placemaker will search through raw text (feeds, web pages, news, status updates ), pull out and disambiguate location references, counts them and provide WEOID (a Yahoo location ID). Then, one can programmatically "do something" with that information. Here's the blog post introducing it.
So, I'm sure someone is thinking..."oh, like MetaCarta." Yes and no. Yes, MetaCarta's tools do parse geographic locations - but they do it with natural language processing - so "ten miles north of Paris" can be turned into a correct location based on the context in France or Texas. I don't expect that from Yahoo's offering.
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Thursday, May 14. 2009
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Off Topic: How I Managed During the Google Outage
I knew it without checking Twitter; something was up with Google News this am. After confirming it was not my ISP I used another service. Yep, Yahoo News did the job just fine. Oh and GMail was down, but if anything really important was going on via e-mail - my colleagues would IM or another e-mail account or Twitter to reach me. No biggy. The cloud works for me...
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