Items tagged googlemaps in Nov, 2010
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How come Google Maps provides so many more local Wikipedia entries that GeoNames?
My guess is that GeoNames just uses the latitude/longitude fields from Wikipedia (you can see them in the top right corner of most pages that describe a place), whereas Google actually do some text analysis and attempt to geocode articles themselves, even if they don’t have an exact latitude longitude assigned to them.
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