Visable is a Chrome browser extension that maps the locations on your web page. Visable uses a customized natural language processing toolkit to parse the text in your active tab, pull the relevant geographic data and display these locations — all in JavaScript.
Highlight key words, phrases and paragraphs that contain location information and map those places in the current tab. Find places, create maps and explore ArcGIS Online feature layers to the geographic data all with the push of a button.
Download and install Visable it from GitHub.
To install from GitHub:
- Download the .zip & extract or clone this repo to your computer using
git clone https://github.com/our-sinc-topo/visable.git. - Type
chrome://extensionsin your Chrome browser's URL bar and hit enter. - Check Developer Mode in the upper right hand corner of the extensions page.
- Click
Load unpacked extension...on the upper left hand side. - Navigate to and select the root directory of the extension (the folder that contains manifest.json).
Go to a page, highlight some text, and click the extension's icon:
The Chrome browser is required to use this product.
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Thomas Binu, Evgeni Dobranov, Gracen Hanley, Cyrus Maden, Ankur Rastogi and contributors.
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