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

by s3f0 • 12 years ago

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chippy2• 12 years ago

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

s3f02• 12 years ago

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.

chippy2• 12 years ago

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.

s3f02• 12 years ago

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 :)

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