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Description

For use with Mobilemaps nearby engine, or independently, this autonomous web spider finds the geographic position of Web pages.

By identifying addresses on web-pages it allows the pages to be geo-coded, i.e. to have their geographic location determined.

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Benefits
  • Web-page products, services, and information can be mapped, allowing users to locate them in the real-world.

  • Web-page products, services, and information can be proximity sorted, allowing users to find the physically closest.

  • Yellow Pages and other business directories can be supplemented with rich Web-page data, giving users the power to do keyword searches for specific products & services instead of selecting general categories.

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Features
  • USA Zipcode/UK Postcode Identification using quick & reliable automated search algorithms.

  • Postal Address Identification is made for more precise geo-coding of web-pages. A Postal address file can be used to obtain best matches for addresses.

  • Geocoding can be accomplished immediately with the integration of Zip/postcode/address to latitude/longitude conversion tables.

  • Many spider features such as search-depth, regular expression domain-restrictions, robots.txt compatibility, parallel spiders, single site spidering, restricted sites spidering, or WWW spidering.

  • Cross-platform GUI interface, as well as command-line interface.

  • Open-source Perl product. Source code is provided.

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Systems
Systems that will run the Mobilemaps Spider include Linux, Windows, Unix, and MacOS X.

Systems require the following open source software programs to be installed: MySQL and Perl.
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Download
The open source Mobilemaps spider can be freely downloaded here. It is licensed under the GPL license.
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Support
We are prepared to install and maintain the Mobilemaps spider software on your machines, or provide a spidering service from our machines - please contact us for further information about our services.
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Example Application
Mobilemaps spider helps AtomJump.co.uk generate maps to UK organizations in a single click!

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