<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Ted , Ravi and OSGeo,<br><br> If you are using yahoo web-based mail system,<br>you will see that there is pop-up map frame appears whenever there is a place names.<br>whenever there is a time description, it will pop-up a web-based yahoo calendar.<br><br>The latter is time-stamps while the former is spatial-stamps which is called Geotagger, GeoTagging, Geotag etc.<br>you can tag <a href="http://www.zooomr.com/photos/thomashawk/983375/">photos</a>, documents, <a href="http://www.kovacevic.nl/hacks/kml/rss2kml.php">rss </a>, <a href="http://www.geotagger.co.uk/">photos</a>, etc geospatially.<br><br>so now we already have 3 terms, geocoder, geolocator, geotagger. <br>Is someone can clarify their
differences or any further like their implementation and value to us? <br><br>brian<br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: RAVI KUMAR <ravivundavalli@yahoo.com><br>To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org<br>Cc: discuss-request@lists.osgeo.org<br>Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2007 12:50:47 PM<br>Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open-Source Geolocator??<br><br>
<div>Hi All,</div> <div>reading loation from a text file and locating them on a GIS </div> <div>can be accomplished by</div> <div>OpenJUMP</div> <div>Qgis</div> <div>or for that matter any Open Source GIS..</div> <div>But the best is GRASS..</div> <div> </div> <div>How ever If one wishes that Locations to be picked up from various kinds of text inputs</div> <div>(news on internet) and attached to their locations, this will be a nice Research and development. Some food for thought..</div> <div> </div> <div>Data mine --> To Isolate locations</div> <div>--> Attach corresponding Lat Longs to these</div> <div>--> Input to an Open Source GIS</div> <div> </div> <div>Ravi Kumar</div><p>
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