MetaCarta GeoParser API


location based services

MetaCarta GeoParser API provides a unified RESTful interface to the MetaCarta LocationFinder and GeoTagger. It takes a document or query string as input and extracts locations referenced in the text. It returns this information in these formats:
XML in two flavors: "geomarkup" and "locations"
Javascript for faster import into AJAX apps
PNG showing the locations
These formats can be used in many ways. For example, the thumbnails enhance these search results with geography by showing the locations referenced in each of the search hits: