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The Geo group hangs out here: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ysearchboss/

Try asking this in there and you'll get a faster answer :)

Robyn

i have app id.but i dont know how to use place maker.any body can help me...plz

Hi there

I just wanted to let you know that I combined Yahoo! Placemaker and Evernote, a rather popular note taking service. Check it out at http://noteplac.es .

This is part of the Evernote Devcup competition, so if you like it, you will be able vote for it athttp://devcup.evernote.com/submissions/8587-noteplaces, starting July 6th. Thank you!

Cheers
Stephan

While analyzing the geographic scope for the towns in Russia I found that the southwest and northeast point is same for different towns, though their centroid is correct. Please look into the issue.

Hi,
I just started using Placemaker, and although I am finding it very useful and precise, there seems to be quite a lack of places provided by Placemaker for Malta, and only major towns are available. Are there any future plans to increase the coverage for countries such as Malta?

Bit of a significant one - a search for "England" yields no results.

QUOTE (Eddie B @ 5 Jun 2009 10:41 AM) Have you noticed that Placemaker doesn't recognize your neighborhood, or favorite tourist attraction? Would you like to see these places added to a future release of Placemaker? If so, you may suggest places to be added by posting a reply on the GeoPlanet Enhancements Requests Missing and new places topic. All suggestions will be reviewed for inclusion in our named place repository that is used by both Placemaker and GeoPlanet.

What we are looking for is source material that describes the place mentioned. For each place we need to know the following information:

Place name (e.g. Chinatown)
Place type (e.g. Neighborhood)
Location (coordinates or containing place)
URL that mentions the place name in context (optional)

If you know of a source that contains multiple places, you don't need to provide information about every place; the URL will be sufficient.

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Thanks for pointing that out - I have just filled out the form and look forward to hearing back soon!

The Contact Us link at the bottom of the page (or http://developer.yahoo.com/register/) allows you to enter contact information and provide details about the application you are developing. Someone will reply to you within 48 hours.

Eddie Babcock
Yahoo! Geo Technologies

Is there a process we can go through or contact to discuss the commercial usage of the Placemaker API?

Thank you Eddie for confirming. The problem was gone after 24 hours. I will trace the bottleneck next time it occurs.

Do you know how/if we can check:
- live status of Placemaker web services?
- number of API calls made by a certain appid?
(I downloaded CSV under http://developer.apps.yahoo.com/projects/ but it returned empty).

Thanks!
-Ray

Hello,

Can anyone help me to find the difference between PlaceDetails and LocalScope?

Thanks,

Joo Vicente

Topic should read 'Placemaker', not 'Placefinder'.

Hi,

Anyone else is seeing a lot of Yahoo Placemaker (and Geoplanet) requests (via curl) hitting a variety of errors:
- connect() timed out!
- Empty reply from server
- Failure when receiving data from the peer

This API has been working for me for months and suddenly became unreliable this morning. Was the server down? Where can I check API status?

I did make a lot of API calls to Yahoo Placemaker in the last 24 hours, so I'm wondering if that may have caused it. If that's the case, how can I resolve it?

My own tracking shows I'm way below the daily limit, but how can I check that limit in my Yahoo developer account?

Thank you in advance for your help!
-Ray

Hello,
I am creating an application that retrieves places from news articles using PlaceMaker. For the most part it works great, but the most common errors in identifying places deals with place names that use common words or phrases. For example:

Pine Bark, Waleska, GA, US
Lofty Heights, MD, US
German, NY, US
Basket Case, St. Augustine, FL, US
Greenhouse, Plant City, FL, US
Main Point, Newfoundland and Labrador, CA

The term "Chicago" only refers to a place, but the term "Main Point" could also be part of a discussion that has nothing to do with any place. I'm wondering if these types of place names could be identified and given a lower confidence because they could easilty be confused, especially if they are not a highly populated place? For now, I build a list of these places as I find them in the results and filter them from all future results. There are many more like this and it seems like they are never ending. I would be happy to send you my complete list. It is a work in progress.
Thanks,
Ken

Recently I've started to see an error from the PlaceMaker API stating:

column placemaker_woedetail.centroid does not exist

Has the API changed? This code was working fine before. And now fails on the following query:

y.execute('select woeid, name, boundingBox, centroid from geo.places where woeid in (%s)' % woeids)

This seems to have started late last week. Anyone knows why this is happening?

Rahmal

I'm getting responses from placemaker containing woeid's that aren't found in the geoplanet data csv OR the geoplanet API.

For example, I get this place in a placemaker response:
woeid: 56257192
name: Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, US
lat: 42.377700
lon: -71.120100

A query to the geoplanet API: http://where.yahooapis.com/v1/place/56257192?appid=foobar
returns: 404 Resource Does Not Exist

I've seen several other woeid's like this. They aren't in the changes list so they don't appear to be deprectated or have been deleted. I was under the assumption that Placemaker used the geoplanet data but it seems they aren't quite in sync.

Dear Yahoo,

May be you will look into the following place names:

- Earth / Europe / Netherlands / Zeeland / Veere / Vere

> last part must (also) be: Veere

see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veere

and:

- Earth / Europe / Belgium / Oost-Vlaanderen / Eeklo / Selzaet
- Earth / Europe / Belgium / Oost-Vlaanderen / Eeklo / Selzaet / Klein Rusland
- Earth / Europe / Belgium / Oost-Vlaanderen / Eeklo / Selzaet / Molenstukken

> Selzaet = Zelzate, as in:

Earth / Europe / Belgium / Oost-Vlaanderen / Eeklo / Zelzate

see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelzate

Thank you!

I'm using Yahoo Top Stories as the RSS input and using documentURL to point to the content. The docs for outputType=rss imply that the actual RSS input is returned with additional elements under each rss/channel/item element for any places found.

When I run this:

documentURL=http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/topstories
documentType=text/rss
outputType=rss
appid={my-app-id}

What I get in the response is this:

xmlns="http://wherein.yahooapis.com/v1/schema" xmlns:yahoo="http://www.yahooapis.com/v1/base.rng">
0.054671
build 110121
38352


23424739
Country
Afghanistan

33.9305
67.6789



23424739
Country
Afghanistan

33.9305
67.6789




23424739
Country
Afghanistan (Country)

33.9305
67.6789

Hello Eddie,

Could you please shed some light as to whether other Yahoo Location APIs are suitable for such cases, i.e. cases with short document size (2-4 words) where Placemaker is more likely to assign lower weight on a location that the minimum threshold?
e.g. Yahoo PlaceFinder or Yahoo GeoPlanet

Thanks.
-Ray