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27th May 2009 - Link Blog

geocoders. 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.

Posted 27th May 2009 at 10:02 am

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 27th May 2009.

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