"Innovation Through Open Location"

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Yahoo releases GeoPlanet data — tab‑delimited dumps of WOEIDs and labels covering millions of places — and exposes a Placemaker XML API that extracts place mentions from any text, returns WOEIDs, counts, and offsets so apps can geotag unstructured content. Services link to user location (Fire Eagle) and target ads or discovery without maps. Placemaker supports about 21 languages, is global and free (no formal rate limits, informal throttling applies).

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1. 0:00Start
2. 3:56Create a Location-Aware Internet
3. 5:32The Most Ubiquitous Entity on the Internet Today
4. 6:00Innovation on Open Location
5. 8:31Geoplanet
6. 10:12Alternative Place Names

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