From Yahoo1 Dev net today comes Placemaker, a geoparsing Web service that gives you a way to determine the ‘whereness’ of unstructured content. From Yahoo!… This read-only service identifies, disambiguates, and ‘extracts’ places from structured and unstructured text content, such as web pages, feeds, news, blog posts, and status updates. As an open API, Yahoo! Placemaker helps developers make applications and datasets location-aware. See http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/placemaker/
