John,
The Biodiversity Heritage Library has geocoded our books and journals based
on LCSH geographic headings (not based on geonames in full text).
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/browse/map
Our data is available via APIs and datasets and while we do store the
lat/long info we acquire from Google Maps api we are not allowed to share
it within our datasets because it would violate Microsoft's Terms of
Service.
Here is a link to a presentation Chris Freeland did recently on our
geocoding
http://www.slideshare.net/chrisfreeland/built-works-registry-geocoding-biodiversity-heritage-library
The end of the presentation links to a 2008 article in code4lib that
explains more of the technical details.
Trish Rose-Sandler,
Data Analyst, Biodiversity Heritage Library
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:13 PM, John Miedema <john.miedema_at_gmail.com>wrote:
> Looking for geotagged book data sources, available as (in order of
> preference): apis, share-able dataset, crawl source. Ideally this data is
> indexed by lat/long, but any geographical groupings are valuable.
>
> Here’s what I have so far.
> http://openbooklab.com/looking-for-geotagged-book-data-sources/
>
> Are you interested in geotagging your book content?
> http://openbooklab.com/how-to-geotag-book-content-in-four-steps/
>
> Thanks, John
>
Received on Thu Jul 12 2012 - 14:56:58 EDT