[okfn-labs] Find country names in blobs of unknown text

Fri Jun 13 17:04:30 UTC 2014

On that note: http://opennames.org/datasets/iso-countries 

- Friedrich 

On 13 Jun 2014, at 19:03, Michael Bauer <michael.bauer at okfn.org> wrote:

> Thomas,
> 
> Could you use Opennames (hrm. Nomenklatura) for something like this?
> 
> e.g. add in the ISO country list and then work on alternate spellings?
> 
> Michael
> 
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 11:54:28AM -0400, Thomas Levine wrote:
>> I'm looking for a function or regular expression that finds country names in blobs of text.
>> This can just be something that does a bunch of exact string matches so that it doesn't matter
>> whether the source blob (company names in my case) is spelled "Aecom New Zealand Limited",
>> "Aecom (New Zealand)", "Aecom, New Zealand", or "New Zealand". Has someone released something
>> like this?
>> 
>> If I don't see an answer soon, I'm going to write a regular expression that matches with a
>> bunch of country names from some country name dataset.
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