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Show HN: Location Extraction API Launch, Place Spotter
- chippy 12y agoWhat data does this use for locations? And what is the license for the results?
- s3f0 12y agoWe have use open data: Census, OSM, geonames... so the data is open: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/ If do you have any more info let me know.
- chippy 12y agoThis 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.
- s3f0 12y agoTry 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 :)