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<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">I did something similar to this a couple of years ago (for fun of all things) where I parsed a Craigslist listing, and used the city location information (I used a Census Placename SHP file I think) to plot a location for each item for sale on a map. The plan at the time was to mapify Craigslist and be able to do geo-filtered queries. I gotrlb.sharedgeo.o it to work, but got onto other things and never went back to it.</font> </p>
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<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">I used PERL, and as I recall, it wasn't that long of a script, maybe 50 lines or so. I can look for the code if there is interest.</font> </p>
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>>> Stephen Woodbridge <woodbri@swoodbridge.com> wrote:<br> </p>
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Here are some more links that you might find useful.<br><br><a href="http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/10/385">http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/10/385</a><br><a href="http://www.ijcte.org/papers/005.pdf">http://www.ijcte.org/papers/005.pdf</a><br><a href="http://www.e-perimetron.org/Vol_4_1/Martins_et_al.pdf">http://www.e-perimetron.org/Vol_4_1/Martins_et_al.pdf</a><br><a href="http://nltk.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/book/ch07.html">http://nltk.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/book/ch07.html</a><br><br>I can not find a potentially excelent reference that was done by about 5<br>years ago by maybe a GSoC student that I think then hired on with<br>Google, but the basically he wrote a document parser that looked for<br>location references in the text and then tagged the document with<br>locations and lat/longs. If I remember correctly it as a gazetteer based<br>system and it is open source and was online somewhere also.<br><br>-Steve<br><br>On 1/13/2012 6:00 PM, slesage wrote:<br>> Hi,<br>><br>> does anybody knows about some opensource software dedicated to automatic<br>> geocoding of text documents ? The idea of that "black box" would be:<br>> * give, as an input, a text document or a PDF,<br>> * receive, as an output, a list of place names with their coordinates /<br>> a map of POI corresponding to that places.<br>><br>> Using the geonames database (http://www.geonames.org/), the solution<br>> appears to be only a fulltext search, that could be done using Lucene<br>> (https://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/index.html).<br>><br>> I found the metacarta solution<br>> (http://www.metacarta.com/products-platform-geotag.htm) but couldn't<br>> find any opensource solution.<br>><br>> Thanks for your suggestions.<br>><br>> Sylvain Lesage.<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Discuss mailing list<br>> Discuss@lists.osgeo.org<br>> <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss</a><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Discuss mailing list<br>Discuss@lists.osgeo.org<br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss</a><br>
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