Geoparsing Maps the Future of Text Documents
Several readers offered comments.
"... In terms of historical perspective, back in 2000 and 2001 the OGC conducted a Geospatial Fusion Service Pilot. Funded by InQTel, a key standards research thread in this pilot was geoparsing. ..."
- Carl Reed, OGC
"... This technology is moving out of the fringe and into the mainstream. As the technology improves and the user community expands, we will see applications not only in military and emergency management, but in online publishing, real estate, travel, and more generally by vertical industry. ..."
- Andre Doumitt, Geosemble Technologies
"... Several companies are exposing Web-based APIs for performing geo-spatial entity tagging and disambiguation tasks. The importance of robust disambiguation capability cannot be understated when geo-tagging text; most industry players seem to have developed or be working on their own disambiguation technology. ..."
- Elliot Turner, Orchestr8, LLC
The View from Here: The Geoblogosphere in 2009
A reader gave his perspective on whether you can survive without twittering.
"... I get so many industry people telling me I MUST twitter. I don't and I still manage to do my job effectively. The problem for me is context - "finding the good stuff" as you put it. ..."
- Steven Ramage, 1Spatial
