GeoNames Forum

I have the need to extract location information from a paragraph of text. Is there a way to do that with the GeoNames web services?

I ask because I gather that GeoNames has a natural language processor built into the rssToGeoRSS web service, so I was hoping it could somehow be utilized directly on a block of text, without an RSS feed.

Thanks.

Kate

Hi Kate

I am afraid the service is only available for rss feeds.
Exposing it as a direct service would be possible, but only with the same functionality (return one location per input text, no tagging of the terms that correspond to the location). How would the service have to look like to be useful to you?

Best Regards

Marc

OK, I see. I would really need the location of all places in the text, though I wouldn't need the terms tagged.

But instead, I can probably just use another tool to extract the location terms and then use GeoNames on each term individually.

Thanks so much!

Kate