Thursday, May 21. 2009

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.

via @timoreilly

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