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How do you geocode
Hi, I was wondering how you are doing geocoding of the news items, and whether if I personalize mappedup with my own feeds, if the rss feeds from mappedup will then take those feeds and add the geocoded locations.
Thanks, Imran
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Jeroenw (Aug 24, 2006):
hello Imran,
yes it will. If you add your own feeds, mappedup will return an aggregated feed with geocoding added to it. the feed can also be called from outside mappedup at the address:
www.mappedup.com/rss/user/YOUR_NICKNAME/
The geolocating is now done with an ip-to-geo database, city-to-geo database and manual correction. We constantly try to improve upon this and make it go more automatically.
One note: geotagging is added on a feed level, not per item. Geotagging single newsitems does work (sometimes) for global headlines (eg. "trouble in iraq"), but it's not very useful for weblogs, design & development feeds etc.
At geonames.org (we use their database for city-to-geo mapping), there is a small tool for item-level geotagging (http://www.geonames.org/rss-to-georss-converter.html). But then, make sure there is a reference to some city or country in every newsitem that is parsed through the service.