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Unlock Places
Use Unlock Places to search for data about place-names. Cross-search different gazetteers and retrieve data in different machine-readable forms for use in web based applications.
The Gazetteers used for searching include Geonames and those available from Ordnance Survey's Open Data
Unlock Text
Use Unlock Text to extract place-names from documents and find their locations. Unlock Text uses the Places gazetteer cross-search to make ranked best guesses as to the location of place-names.
For use with plain text documents, XML metadata or HTML web pages. The Unlock Text web service works best with short modern texts.
