[Developers] Freebase and geo location information

[Reilly Hayes]

We do have a bot that does this.  Look here to see recent activity:

http://www.freebase.com/history/user/user/geo_bot

That said, it could be better.  We'll look into your suggested sources.

thanks,

reilly hayes
metaweb

On Apr 20, 2009, at 9:07 AM, Paul Houle wrote:

> Tom Morris wrote:
>>> I see in the examples, that Freebase can be queried for  
>>> GeoLocation.  Does
>>> Freebase pull
>>> data from the GeoNames knowledge base?  (www.geonames.org)
>>>
>>
>> I was told a while back that Freebase does not include all of GNIS,
>> which would mean, by definition, it doesn't include all of GeoNames.
>>
>> I think it would be very useful to have standard gazeteers with
>> non-conflicting licenes, like GeoNames, included as part of the
>> standard database.
>>
>    Personally,  I'd like it if somebody were to run all the street
> addresses in Freebase through a geocoder and turn them into  
> coordinates.
>
>    Google's geocoder works for many international addresses,  it's the
> only one I've used that does that.  However,  you're not supposed to  
> use
> Google's geocoder for anything other than putting markers on  
> Google's maps.
>
>    Melissa Data and other providers will geocode address batches for a
> very reasonable price,  and I think you can do what you want with the
> geocodes since you paid for them.  The services I've look at so far  
> only
> cover the US,  but other ones must be available.
>
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