Placemaker is a developer tool to take locations from unstructured text and pop them onto a map. With some time on his hands,London-based Yahoo developer Chris Heilmann,made it more accessible to non-programmers in GeoMaker,which debuted July 1 (when many in the U.S. were getting ready for a big holiday weekend). The resulting autogenerated comes in two forms –an embeddable map (you need a Map Developer key) or the data in the geo microformat.
Heilmann is looking for feedback and plans to release the code as open source in the future.
- Yahoo Developer Blog Post (includes video demo)
via TechCrunch