Comments on: there will, if necessary, be a grass-roots remapping. http://mappinghacks.com/2006/06/19/there-will-if-necessary-be-a-grass-roots-remapping/ by Schuyler Erle, Rich Gibson and Jo Walsh Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:00:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: text to speech gps http://mappinghacks.com/2006/06/19/there-will-if-necessary-be-a-grass-roots-remapping/#comment-6463 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:29:37 +0000 http://mappinghacks.com/2006/06/19/there-will-if-necessary-be-a-grass-roots-remapping/#comment-6463 <strong>text to speech gps...</strong> It is small and inexpensive, but offers up all sorts of options that will meet your navigation needs with amazingly great power. This unit is unique and convenient as it has a click to enter scroll wheel making it easy to select your destinations.... text to speech gps…

It is small and inexpensive, but offers up all sorts of options that will meet your navigation needs with amazingly great power. This unit is unique and convenient as it has a click to enter scroll wheel making it easy to select your destinations….

]]> by: text to speech gps http://mappinghacks.com/2006/06/19/there-will-if-necessary-be-a-grass-roots-remapping/#comment-6455 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:04:58 +0000 http://mappinghacks.com/2006/06/19/there-will-if-necessary-be-a-grass-roots-remapping/#comment-6455 <strong>text to speech gps...</strong> Quite a bit actually.... text to speech gps…

Quite a bit actually….

]]> by: Jo http://mappinghacks.com/2006/06/19/there-will-if-necessary-be-a-grass-roots-remapping/#comment-91 Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:20:56 +0000 http://mappinghacks.com/2006/06/19/there-will-if-necessary-be-a-grass-roots-remapping/#comment-91 marc, please forgive me for casting doubt on the sophistication of geonames' offering, which seems to do a lot more than I thought it did; it's a great service. I'd go back and use less off-hand wording, but then your comment would lose its context and history would never forgive us. (Do you have plans to open source any of the geonames inference backend, or are you focusing on open licensed web services and distribution of the source data?) I'm sure i'm not the only one who is keen to see a like-for-like faceoff between different natural language geocoding services; Sean shared my niggles about the "proper name problem" at http://zcologia.com/news/196 Thanks for commenting... marc, please forgive me for casting doubt on the sophistication of geonames’ offering, which seems to do a lot more than I thought it did; it’s a great service. I’d go back and use less off-hand wording, but then your comment would lose its context and history would never forgive us.

(Do you have plans to open source any of the geonames inference backend, or are you focusing on open licensed web services and distribution of the source data?)

I’m sure i’m not the only one who is keen to see a like-for-like faceoff between different natural language geocoding services; Sean shared my niggles about the “proper name problem” at http://zcologia.com/news/196

Thanks for commenting…

]]> by: marc http://mappinghacks.com/2006/06/19/there-will-if-necessary-be-a-grass-roots-remapping/#comment-90 Tue, 20 Jun 2006 15:59:08 +0000 http://mappinghacks.com/2006/06/19/there-will-if-necessary-be-a-grass-roots-remapping/#comment-90 I wonder how you define 'brute force approach'. The geonames natural language geocoder does take the language of a text into account (Como may be a city in Italy or a frequent word in Spanish). It does try to correctly identify the context of a text (In an IT context the term java most likely stands for the programming language and not for the island). It does analyze the grammatical structure of a text. A lot of the code is dedicated to find potential names of persons in a text to avoid geocoding these names. ("Paris" : one of 350 place names or the party girl? It depends on the grammatical and semantical context.) And geonames does try to correctly handle ambiguous place names. Last but not least geonames does all this in five languages : English, German, French, Italian and Spanish. http://www.geonames.org/rss-to-georss-converter.html http://geonames.wordpress.com/tag/natural-language-geocoder/ Marc I wonder how you define ‘brute force approach’.
The geonames natural language geocoder does take the language of a text into account (Como may be a city in Italy or a frequent word in Spanish). It does try to correctly identify the context of a text (In an IT context the term java most likely stands for the programming language and not for the island). It does analyze the grammatical structure of a text. A lot of the code is dedicated to find potential names of persons in a text to avoid geocoding these names. (”Paris” : one of 350 place names or the party girl? It depends on the grammatical and semantical context.) And geonames does try to correctly handle ambiguous place names.
Last but not least geonames does all this in five languages : English, German, French, Italian and Spanish.

http://www.geonames.org/rss-to-georss-converter.html
http://geonames.wordpress.com/tag/natural-language-geocoder/

Marc

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