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

[Francesco Emanuele Bucci]

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On 19 February 2013 21:55, Tony.Hirst <Tony.Hirst at open.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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
> To: Lucy Chambers
> Cc: List about Data Driven Journalism and Open Data in Journalism.;
> school-of-data at lists.okfn.org
> 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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