Comments on: Where 2.0 Day 2 – It’s all about data.. http://www.edparsons.com/2006/06/where-20-day-2-its-all-about-data/ The blog of Ed Parsons, Geographer. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:11:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michael http://www.edparsons.com/2006/06/where-20-day-2-its-all-about-data/#comment-421 Michael Sat, 17 Jun 2006 00:22:39 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=263#comment-421 Thanks for the write-up, Ed. Good to hear about some of the conf highlights. I checked out metacarta GeoParser API's, look pretty nice. Wasn't apparent from their home page where the docs were, so here's the link for anyone who wants to peruse: http://labs.metacarta.com/GeoParser/documentation.html Thanks for the write-up, Ed. Good to hear about some of the conf highlights. I checked out metacarta GeoParser API’s, look pretty nice. Wasn’t apparent from their home page where the docs were, so here’s the link for anyone who wants to peruse:

http://labs.metacarta.com/GeoParser/documentation.html

]]> By: Thierry http://www.edparsons.com/2006/06/where-20-day-2-its-all-about-data/#comment-420 Thierry Fri, 16 Jun 2006 06:56:07 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=263#comment-420 I'm sometimes surprised how little awareness there is about geoparsing in the professional GI community. It allows you to turn your GI system into a full-blown geocoded search engine. All you need is a gazetteer and a geoparsing engine, though the engine needs a fair bit of intelligence e.g. natural language ability. Geoparsing is well established in the oil industry, as it's especially useful for quick analysis of legacy, scientific and competitive intelligence material, looking for clues where new business opportunities might lie for oil and gas exploration worldwide. We are using it to geocode entire EDMS systems with millions of documents. Linking it to scientific journal libraries is another powerful application but the publishing houses are not unlike your sleeping bears... Not surprisingly Metacarta is a CIA spin-off as it's well suited for intelligence work, but also has a multinational oil company as major investor. You can indeed integrate a tool like this relatively easily into your own IS landscape, though often that is already cluttered with existing GIS viewers on top of business or science applications... But you don't always need to draw or see a map to get the benefit of spatial analysis or geoparsing. I’m sometimes surprised how little awareness there is about geoparsing in the professional GI community. It allows you to turn your GI system into a full-blown geocoded search engine. All you need is a gazetteer and a geoparsing engine, though the engine needs a fair bit of intelligence e.g. natural language ability.

Geoparsing is well established in the oil industry, as it’s especially useful for quick analysis of legacy, scientific and competitive intelligence material, looking for clues where new business opportunities might lie for oil and gas exploration worldwide. We are using it to geocode entire EDMS systems with millions of documents. Linking it to scientific journal libraries is another powerful application but the publishing houses are not unlike your sleeping bears…

Not surprisingly Metacarta is a CIA spin-off as it’s well suited for intelligence work, but also has a multinational oil company as major investor. You can indeed integrate a tool like this relatively easily into your own IS landscape, though often that is already cluttered with existing GIS viewers on top of business or science applications… But you don’t always need to draw or see a map to get the benefit of spatial analysis or geoparsing.

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