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Yahoo! Developer Network:Placemaker
Placemaker
In this video, Christian Heilmann introduces Yahoo! Placemaker. According to chris, Yahoo! Placemaker is a web service API. "You give it a URL to get data from or a text to extract geographical information from". He explains the reasons and the need for a tool like placemaker. Chris made known the few annoyances with placemaker and demonstrated workarounds using YQL and other techniques.
ABOUT CHRISTIAN HEILMANN
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Christian Heilmann is a geek and hacker by heart. He’s been a professional web developer for about eleven years and worked his way through several agencies up to Yahoo where he delivered Yahoo Maps Europe and Yahoo Answers.
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