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November 2009
scraplab — Using Geoplanet Data in Ruby on Rails
by karlcow
Geoplanet is a database of 5.4 million places in a hierarchy. Each entry has a unique, permanent ID (WOEID), a name and a place type. For example, Homerton (20089379) is a Suburb in the London Borough of Hackney (12695808), which is a LocalAdmin in London (44418), which is a Town in Greater London (23416974), and so on.
October 2009
Know Your Place; Adding Geographic Intelligence to your Content « vicchi.org
by karlcow
capturing is the issue. Culture de l'écrit.n the same vein, our goal is to capture the world’s geography as it is used by the world’s people.
May 2009
Yahoo! Placemaker™ Beta - YDN
by karlcow
& 2 others
Yahoo! Placemaker is a freely available geoparsing Web service. It helps developers make their applications location-aware by identifying places in unstructured and atomic content – feeds, web pages, news, status updates – and returning geographic metadata for geographic indexing and markup.
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April 2009
Yahoo!’s spatial thinking at Tim Warr’s Blog
by karlcow
or woeid is a universal cultural mapping system. The meaning is carried by people, not mathematics abstractions.So what I love about WOE ID is it is a simple non mapping solution to an age old spatial problem. In fact a map is ultimately relegated to just a display function.
