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CLAVIN

• https://github.com/Berico-Technologies/CLAVIN

• Datasource: www.goenames.org

• Open source

Yes

Parses a lon/lat point of Boston, MA from 'Snow cover in Boston'

Gets "Paris, ME", "Oxford, ME", and "Norway, ME" from "small towns like Paris, Norway, Oxford in Maine"

gisgraphy

• http://services.gisgraphy.com/

• Datasource: www.goenames.org

• Free web service (API)

• Open source

• Download and setup local server (Free)

• Paid premium services

No

• Placename/Address Search

• 'Find nearby' search

• Fulltext POI, zip, address search

'Washington, DC'

'BWI'

'20737'

Yahoo!

• https://developer.yahoo.com/boss/geo/docs

  Example 

Free Tier: 2000 queries per day per table per appId

Yes (see example)

• Also supports geocoding and reverse geocoding

YQL:

SELECT * FROM geo.placemaker WHERE documentContent = “They followed him to 

deepest Africa and found him there, in Timbuktu” AND documentType=”text/plain”.

Link to the example

geoparser.io

• https://geoparser.io

Free: 1000 calls/month/apiKey

$999: 100k calls/month/apiKey

Unlimited: "Contact Us"

Yes

curl -X POST -d inputText="I was born in Springfield and grew up in Boston." \

-H "authorization: apiKey INSERT-YOUR-API-KEY-HERE" \

https://geoparser.io/api/geoparser

Unlock Text

• http://unlock.edina.ac.uk/texts/introduction

Free

Uses LTG and CLAVIN parsers

Yes

OpenBlock

Free Tier: 2500/day

Yes - Address parsing

• geocoding/reverse geocoding

https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=1600+Amphitheatre+

Parkway,+Mountain+View,+CA&key=YOUR_API_KEY