Monday, July 6. 2009

Yahoo Placemaker Update: GeoMaker

Placemaker is a developer tool to take locations from unstructured text and pop them onto a map. With some time on his hands, London-based Yahoo developer Chris Heilmann, made it more accessible to non-programmers in GeoMaker, which debuted July 1 (when many in the U.S. were getting ready for a big holiday weekend). The resulting autogenerated comes in two forms - an embeddable map (you need a Map Developer key) or the data in the geo microformat.

Heilmann is looking for feedback and plans to release the code as open source in the future.

- Yahoo Developer Blog Post (includes video demo)

via TechCrunch

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