Yahoo! Placemaker. 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.
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Cool! Thinking of a way to use this in our Loco2 app...
Jamie - 21st May 2009 11:56 - #
I'm apparently doing it wrong:
http://dpaste.com/46221/
(That's from an example.)
Working code sample, anyone?
Jeremy Dnck - 22nd May 2009 03:41 - #
You need to include the Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded header. Here's my working function:
http://gist.github.com/115985
Bah, I coulda sworn I tried that.
Thanks.
Jeremy Dunck - 22nd May 2009 14:23 - #