Info Extraction & Geo-inferencing Projects

keywords: geoparsing, geocoding, entity extraction, NER, REGEX

Xponents - Geotagging APIs to work with gazetteers and multilingual extraction of geography, date/time, patterns. A pre-built Docker microservice is available with a complete operational gazetteer and geotagger that accepts text.

Example applications demonstrate the use of Tika for rendering inputs and GISCore for output formats to demonstrate end-to-end solutions. The geotagger features the Solr TextTagger.

Xponents is primarily a Java-based library and web service, with various Python client entry points.
6,000+ downloads on Docker Hub, so far!.

Xponents 4.x series for 2027 plans to be a python-port of everything.

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Last updated 2026-Oct.