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Tag: geonews

  • Going Places – Places in News stories vs. Places of News stories

    What’s the scope? This part of the miniseries is actually the heart of the whole series. It describes why and how our approach differs AFAIK from all other approaches of geocoding news, including the approaches taken recently by Google News with it’s local news extension ( see here and here) and Yahoo with it’s Newsglobe.It […]

  • EveryBlock launched – first impressions

    I’ve just read the news that EveryBlock has lauched on Adrian Holovaty’s blog. (You can read about the idea behind everyblock at the launch entry of the everyblock blog). I had the chance to meet Adrian last August and discuss some of my ideas and concerns related to geocoding news etc with him. It’s great […]

  • Going Places – Adding geographic metadata to news at the source

    Over one and a half years ago i embarked onto the mission to bring geographic metadata to the wires of dpa. After quite some convincing in April started defining and redefining the roadmap, the semantics and the syntax of the metadata, designing and building the support process into our editorial systems. Since mid december we […]