[OSGeo-UK] Unlock - EDINA's gazetteer and geoparser services

[Andrew Larcombe]

On 17 Dec 2009, at 10:28, Jo Walsh wrote:

> dear Chippy, Andrew, all,
>
> >> I kept on getting errors "Error executing command-line  
> application "
>>> when I saved and then uploaded a html document.
>>> However, when I copied and pasted the text into a text file, and
>>> uploaded that, i got "Incorrect number of parameters" for xml output
>>> (The JSON and KML seemed to work though)
>
> Right, we found the likely cause of your html-parsing issue and  
> have reinstated the HTML option in the form-based interface.
>
> http://unlock.edina.ac.uk/text.html
>
> Otherwise, that page has been expanded to explain the different  
> options, hopefully somewhat clearly. The main outstanding caveat is  
> that if you use the 'XML' document type option, but the document  
> isn't well-formed XML, you'll still see the unfriendly error.
>
> Next step is to trap the different error states better, but that  
> will take longer to resolve working with our partners in this part  
> of the project, the wonderful people at the Language Technology  
> Group in the University of Edinburgh's School of Informatics.

This is great, thanks. What is the relevance/meaning/scale of the  
score, clusteriness etc attributes that are returned with the places  
in the xml?

Cheers,

Andrew

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