Show HN: Location Extraction API Launch, Place Spotter(blog.mapplas.com)

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Show HN: Location Extraction API Launch, Place Spotter

http://blog.mapplas.com/post/97139204384/location-extraction-api-launch-place-spotter

2 comments

chippy12년 전

This is similar to Yahoo's old Placemaker and a few other services out there. Extracting locations is quite tricky.

I tried "St Francis near the statue of liberty. Going to new york to see the queen." but it gave a zero results result.

s3f012년 전

Try this: St Francis near the Statue of Liberty. Going to New York to see the queen. You have use small caps, we are sensitive to small caps :)

chippy12년 전

What data does this use for locations? And what is the license for the results?

s3f012년 전

We have use open data: Census, OSM, geonames... so the data is open: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ If do you have any more info let me know.