On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 10:54:46AM -0500, Ryan Sarver wrote:
> Speaking of Geoparsing -- are there other free services that do
> geoparsing like pipes does?

Define 'free'? http://ondemand.metacarta.com/?method=GeoTagger terms of
use say:

"The Information is released to you under the terms similar to the
Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license with additional
restrictions described below. We will offer commercial licensing in the
future." -- http://accounts.metacarta.com/terms-of-use.html

The geoparsing that MetaCarta does is much more geared towards pulling
geographic references from natural text. For example, since I'm about to
mention that I live in Cambridge, MA, it will pick that out of this
email. At the same time, it will pick up the fact that when I'm in
London and travelling to the Cambridge over in the UK, that I mean a
different Cambridge -- specifically, Cambridge, UK.

You can test this by:
 * Opening http://ondemand.metacarta.com/explorer/
 * Selecting 'GeoTagger' from the API
 * Copy pasting the above paragraph into the 'doc' field.

I don't know if this does what you're interested in or not, or if it
meets the definition of 'free' that you're interested in.  

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta
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