Show HN: Location Extraction API Launch, Place Spotter

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Post by s3f0 » Thu, Sep 11, 2014, 8:53 AM UTC

Show HN: Location Extraction API Launch, Place Spotter
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Re: Show HN: Location Extraction API Launch, Place Spotter

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Post by chippy » Thu, Sep 11, 2014, 5:03 PM UTC

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

Re: Show HN: Location Extraction API Launch, Place Spotter

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Post by chippy » Thu, Sep 11, 2014, 5:07 PM UTC

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.

Re: Show HN: Location Extraction API Launch, Place Spotter

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Post by s3f0 » Tue, Sep 16, 2014, 7:22 PM UTC

chippy wrote: post #3

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.

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 :)

Re: Show HN: Location Extraction API Launch, Place Spotter

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Post by s3f0 » Tue, Sep 16, 2014, 7:26 PM UTC

chippy wrote: post #2

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

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.