[ddj] [School-of-data] Geocoding tutorials on the School of Data Blog

Tue Feb 19 20:55:13 UTC 2013

Peter

As I'm guessing big software installs don't phase you, have you seen Pete Warden's Data Science toolkit; it's got a geocoding db I think, though I'm not sure what the coverage of it is? (I haven't tried it yet - on my to do list)

http://petewarden.typepad.com/searchbrowser/2011/03/launching-the-data-science-toolkit.html

If anyone on the list has played with it - what's it like?!;-)

Also possibly of interest to others on the list, another Pete Warden service: OpenHeatmap - http://www.openheatmap.com/  (code https://github.com/petewarden/openheatmap )

One of the things this has built in is recognition of some common region codes/identifiers - http://www.openheatmap.com/locationhelp.php

tony

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From: Peter Murray-Rust [pm286 at cam.ac.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 8:27 PM
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Subject: Re: [School-of-data] Geocoding tutorials on the School of Data Blog

This is great.

Could you do one of how to call this from languages like Java or Python?

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers at okfn.org<mailto:lucy.chambers at okfn.org>> wrote:
Hi All,

If anyone has ever wanted to know how to convert simple place names in a spreadsheet to lat and long values so that they can put their data on a map, Rufus Pollock has just put up a couple of tutorials on the School of Data blog.

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