This small mashup uses YQL to combine the power of Flickr and Yahoo! Placemaker. Copy and paste some text into the textbox below and click the button — application will first geo-locate all places in the text, and then will try to find photographs, published under Creative Commons license, which were geotagged at or near found places.

a small wrapper in JavaScript that allows JS access to the Placemaker service called JS-Placemaker. I am not hosting a proxy for you, all you need to do is get your own application ID for Placemaker and use the JavaScript which you can host yourself if you wanted to.

Yahoo! Placemaker is a freely available geoparsing Web service. It helps developers make their applications location-aware by identifying places in unstructured and atomic content – feeds, web pages, news, status updates – and returning geographic metadata for geographic indexing and markup.

Simply enter a URL in the following form and submit it. Placemaker then gives you the locations. Results can vary, so re-load the page if needed.

This is a command-line interface to Yahoo!'s Placemaker API. Placemaker is a geoparsing web service, which means that it extracts locations from bodies of text.