About GeoMaker

Free your geographical information

GeoMaker allows you to find and display geographical information in texts, web sites and RSS feeds.

By using GeoMaker you can turn any of these resources into a map or Microformats to embed into your own web sites, blogs and apps.

People

GeoMaker was written by Chris Heilmann (@codepo8 on Twitter, the blog is here) with refinement help by the Yahoo Geo Team.

Cost

GeoMaker is free of use, but if you really consider it useful and it saves you a lot of time, we'd love a donation (PayPal form is in the footer of this page).

A peek under the hood

In essence, GeoMaker is an easier interface to two web services: Yahoo Placemaker and Yahoo Maps.

You can achieve the same results with Placemaker itself, but the filtering of false locations has to be done by hand, which is why we thought an interface would be a good plan. It is also possible to replace the Yahoo Maps output with another provider, for example Google maps and future versions of GeoMaker will get this feature.

The interface was build using the Yahoo User Interface library, especially the YUI grids, fonts, base, data table and button.

Get GeoMaker

GeoMaker is this web site, but you can also download it and install it on your own server, for details check the developers section.

Licensing of GeoMaker

GeoMaker is Open Source and available on GitHub. The license is BSD:

Software License Agreement (BSD License)

Redistribution and use of this software in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are
permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

* Redistributions of source code must retain the above
  copyright notice, this list of conditions and the
  following disclaimer.

* Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above
  copyright notice, this list of conditions and the
  following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other
  materials provided with the distribution.

* Neither the name of Christian Heilmann nor the names of its
  contributors may be used to endorse or promote products
  derived from this software without specific prior
  written permission of Christian Heilmann.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED
WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR
ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT
LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS
INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR
TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF
ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

Licensing of generated code

However, this does not apply to the use of the maps you generate with GeoMaker - they are defined in the Yahoo Maps Terms of Service.

We would also strongly recommend to get your own development key for Yahoo Maps and replace the one in the generated code with yours.

If you download and install GeoMaker you also need to check the Placemaker Terms and Conditions.

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