Re: geo-coordinates in Solvent

From: David Huynh <dfhuynh_at_csail.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 15:54:35 -0500

Hi Dean,

We've noticed the same problem and just fixed it in Piggy Bank. (Solvent
makes use of Piggy Bank for the lookup.) You can get it from the nightly
build or build the source yourself.

David


Dean Allemang wrote:

> This used to work - I don't know what changed.
>
> I was demoing Piggybank/Solvent to someone just yesterday; I picked a
> page full of addresses, scraped them with Solvent. I got a message
> saying "looking up geo-coordinates". Then I showed them on a map.
>
> I did the same demo today (I don't remember if it was the same page or
> not). Now, in the PiggyBank page, I don't get a "coordinates"
> property at all, and I can't map anything.
>
> How is this coordinates lookup done? Does this hit some server at
> Simile, which can be down? Or did something change in my Solvent
> configuration?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dean
>
>
Received on Wed Jan 04 2006 - 20:52:29 EST