Placemaker
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Placemaker is a Yahoo! API that analyzes text documents and extracts references to places, people, brands and events. It returns this information along with related metadata in JSON or XML format. The document discusses how to use the Placemaker API, parameters for the API call, working with the results, and several examples of how Placemaker has been implemented in web applications and browser extensions to associate text with locations.
Placemaker
- 1. Introducing Placemaker Christian Heilmann | http://wait-till-i.com | http://twitter.com/codepo8 YDN Tuesday at Skills Matter, London, UK, July 2009
- 2. Spatial Fanboy
- 5. A web of information
- 9. Mobility http://vimeo.com/2638558
- 10. Hidden goodies
- 11. Free Text Places URL References
- 12. First we take Manhattan, and then we take Berlin.
- 14. Parameters appid - nothing happens without it! inputLanguage documentURL fr-CA,de-DE... url to analyze outputType documentType xml or RSS MIME type of doc documentContent autoDisambiguate text to analyse remove duplicates documentTitle focusWoeid additional title filter around a woeid
- 15. First we take Manhattan, and then we take Berlin.
- 16. First we take Manhattan, and then we take Berlin.
- 20. Places
- 21. References
- 22. Annoyances
- 23. 50,000 bytes
- 24. The broken web
- 25. POST vs. GET
- 26. !JSON
- 28. Fixes
- 29. YQL to fix the web.
- 40. YQL open table for GET and JSON
- 44. Implementations
- 53. You have the data...
- 54. You have the tools...
- 55. All you need is a great idea.
- 56. Flickr knows woeid :)
- 59. T H A N K S ! Keep in touch: Christian Heilmann http://wait-till-i.com http://scriptingenabled.org http://twitter.com/codepo8