http://simonwillison.net/2009-05-27T10:02:54+00:00Simon Willison2009-05-27T10:02:54+00:002009-05-27T10:02:54+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/May/27/geocoders/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://github.com/simonw/geocoders/tree/master">geocoders</a></strong></p> A fifteen minute project extracted from something else I’m working on—an ultra simple Python API for geocoding a single string against Google, Yahoo! Placemaker, GeoNames and (thanks to Jacob) Yahoo! Geo’s web services. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/geocoders">geocoders</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/geocoding">geocoding</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/geonames">geonames</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/github">github</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/google">google</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/jacob-kaplan-moss">jacob-kaplan-moss</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/placemaker">placemaker</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/projects">projects</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/web-services">web-services</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/yahoo">yahoo</a></p>

2009-05-23T00:36:38+00:002009-05-23T00:36:38+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/May/23/jsplacemaker/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://icant.co.uk/jsplacemaker/">JS-Placemaker - geolocate texts in JavaScript</a></strong></p> Chris Heilmann exposed Placemaker to JavaScript (JSONP) using a YQL execute table. Try his examples—I’m impressed that “My name is Jack London, I live in Ontario” returns just Ontario, demonstrating that Placemaker’s NLP is pretty well tuned. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/christian-heilmann">christian-heilmann</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/geocoding">geocoding</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/geospatial">geospatial</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript">javascript</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/jsonp">jsonp</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/nlp">nlp</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/placemaker">placemaker</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/yahoo">yahoo</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/yql">yql</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/yqlexecute">yqlexecute</a></p>

2009-05-20T21:34:49+00:002009-05-20T21:34:49+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/May/20/placemaker/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/placemaker/">Yahoo! Placemaker</a></strong></p> Really exciting new API from Yahoo!—Placemaker accepts a block of text (or a URL to HTML or RSS) and extracts and returns geographical locations mentioned in the text. I just ran my djng blog entry through it and it pulled out “Prague” as the only location mentioned. This should be really useful for adding geodata to existing textual content. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/geocoding">geocoding</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/geospatial">geospatial</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/placemaker">placemaker</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/yahoo">yahoo</a></p>