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Online Raster Map Georeferencing and GeoSearch News

posted by Satri on Wednesday April 23, @05:55PM   Printer-friendly   Email story  Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the garage-tools dept.
Geocoding Media Web Mapping
TMN and FGT discuss two products by MetaCarta. The first one is Map Rectifier, an online raster data georeferencing and registration tool. The second one is GeoSearch News, from the press release: "GeoSearch News indexes an extensive collection of more than 1,400 national, international and local news sources every hour in addition to direct feeds from the Associated Press and Reuters. GeoSearch News provides users a single site on which they can learn what is happening now at any destination in the world." This is not the first similar tool, see related stories below. Update: 04/23 23:16 GMT by S : Corrected intro for accuracy, thanks to Chris Schmidt.

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  • "new"?

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    by Anonymous Voxel on Wednesday April 23, @06:17PM (#2326)
    GeoSearch News, I can understand. It's actually one of the only ones I'm aware of which combines *text* search with the map search, I believe, which most of them don't allow you to do. (That could have changed.) You can compare this to YourStreet, for example: http://www.yourstreet.com/02139 [yourstreet.com] ... YourStreet has only *location* search, no text search. (Additionally, you'll notice the MetaCarta logo in YourStreet results: the locations are, at least in part, sourced through the use of MetaCarta's tools.)

    That was launched relatively recently. However, the Labs Rectifier has been online for 15 months now. Calling it 'new' is, to be frank, simply wrong. How can I tell? Well, You posted about it, back then: http://technology.slashgeo.org/technology/06/10/10 /133233.shtml [slashgeo.org]

    Note the date: 10-10-2006.

    Nice try.

    -- Chris Schmidt
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