Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Automatic geocoding of PDF documents

2012-01-18 Thread Olivier ERTZ
Sylvain, we had a similar need within a research project at our side. We've adopted such a semi-automatic approach including an automatic geotagging service and a kind of wizard to help the user to control what comes out from the service and its own geotags. There are two parts in our solutio

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Automatic geocoding of PDF documents

2012-01-18 Thread Ian Turton
On 17 January 2012 19:51, Arnie Shore wrote: > I wonder if someone can describe what's seen as the > tall-pole-in-the-tent here, difficulty-wise. > See Jochen Leidner's publications http://publicationslist.org/leidner for many useful papers explaining why this is hard and suggesting ways to do it.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Automatic geocoding of PDF documents

2012-01-18 Thread Arnie Shore
Steve, thanks. I'll discard the code I'd started with, then. ;-} AS On 1/17/12, Stephen Woodbridge wrote: > Arnie, > > I think that there is no simple answer ... ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listin

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Automatic geocoding of PDF documents

2012-01-17 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
On 1/17/2012 2:51 PM, Arnie Shore wrote: I wonder if someone can describe what's seen as the tall-pole-in-the-tent here, difficulty-wise. Arnie, I think that there is no simple answer to this because it is largely defined by the specific requirements. If your problem is scanning text and ex

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Automatic geocoding of PDF documents

2012-01-17 Thread Arnie Shore
I wonder if someone can describe what's seen as the tall-pole-in-the-tent here, difficulty-wise. AS ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Automatic geocoding of PDF documents

2012-01-17 Thread slesage
Thank you, very useful for us, as are too the links to geocoding/geoserach tools from other list members. We will do some state of the art revision, and as soon as we write something consistent, I will send the reference here. Sylvain Lesage El 2012-01-17 13:24, Stephen Woodbridge escribió:

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Automatic geocoding of PDF documents

2012-01-17 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Ahhh! found the reference I was looking for. This will show relevant links: https://www.google.com/#q="geo+search"+egnor Hope this is useful. -Steve On 1/17/2012 11:58 AM, Stephen Woodbridge wrote: Here are some more links that you might find useful. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/10

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Automatic geocoding of PDF documents

2012-01-17 Thread Bob Basques
All, 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 C

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Automatic geocoding of PDF documents

2012-01-17 Thread Stephen Woodbridge
Here are some more links that you might find useful. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/10/385 http://www.ijcte.org/papers/005.pdf http://www.e-perimetron.org/Vol_4_1/Martins_et_al.pdf http://nltk.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/book/ch07.html I can not find a potentially excelent reference tha

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Automatic geocoding of PDF documents

2012-01-17 Thread Puneet Kishor
Perhaps http://metalayer.com/ when they actually come out with something that is publicly usable. On Jan 17, 2012, at 10:07 AM, Fawcett, David (MPCA) wrote: > Another related project is Geodict: https://github.com/petewarden/geodict > > David. > > ___

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Automatic geocoding of PDF documents

2012-01-17 Thread Fawcett, David (MPCA)
Another related project is Geodict: https://github.com/petewarden/geodict David. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Automatic geocoding of PDF documents

2012-01-17 Thread slesage
El 2012-01-14 18:05, Stark Hans-Jörg escribió: perhaps OpenAddresses (www.openaddresses.org) may also be helpful. it is far from being complete yet but for some regions the data is fairly dense (and if donated complete) - and: it provides geocoding as rest services (see the wiki). cheers, hj

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Automatic geocoding of PDF documents

2012-01-17 Thread slesage
El 2012-01-14 15:59, Andrew Turner escribió: On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 6:00 PM, slesage wrote: Hi, does anybody knows about some opensource software dedicated to automatic geocoding of text documents ? The idea of that "black box" would be: * give, as an input, a text document or a PDF, * rece

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Automatic geocoding of PDF documents

2012-01-14 Thread Stark Hans-Jörg
perhaps OpenAddresses (www.openaddresses.org) may also be helpful. it is far from being complete yet but for some regions the data is fairly dense (and if donated complete) - and: it provides geocoding as rest services (see the wiki). cheers, hj Am 14.01.2012 um 20:59 schrieb "Andrew Turner" :

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Automatic geocoding of PDF documents

2012-01-14 Thread Andrew Turner
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 6:00 PM, slesage wrote: > Hi, > > does anybody knows about some opensource software dedicated to automatic > geocoding of text documents ? The idea of that "black box" would be: > * give, as an input, a text document or a PDF, > * receive, as an output, a list of place name