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Turn Web Content Into A Map With GeoMaker
Posted on July 03, 2009
At the end of last May, Yahoo released an experimental version of Placemaker, a geo-enrichment platform. What it does is help developers make applications location-aware by identifying places in unstructured and atomic content (think RSS feeds, web pages, news, status updates etc.) and returning geographic metadata for geographic indexing and markup. In layman s terms: it can detect places by scanning content and is capable of putting the aggregate data on a map.While Placemaker does not serve as a geocoder and thus does not perform address recognition on street-level, it is perfectly ...
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