YouTube is an incredible resource for discovering new places, whether through travel vlogs, historical documentaries, or guided walking tours. However, manually noting down locations mentioned in a video can be time-consuming and inefficient. What if there were an easier way to extract and map these locations automatically?
Using the allStara Video AI
The allStara Video AI offers several features to analyze and extract information from YouTube videos. One available option is to "extract locations from a video and save them as a map for trip planning."
Using the AI is simple - just enter the YouTube URL of a video and press the 'Start Locations Extraction' button. allStara then generates a GeoJSON file containing all the locations mentioned in the video and provides a shareable link to a Leaflet.js-powered map of the extracted locations.
While allStara seems to work well with the short default video URL provided, I had no success in two attempts with longer videos (one was 5 minutes and 8 seconds long, and the other was 26 minutes and 5 seconds long). In both cases, allStara took over five minutes to process the videos but ultimately returned empty results, failing to extract any locations.
I love the idea of mapping locations mentioned in videos, but unfortunately, allStara seems to be inconsistent. Going forward, it would also be beneficial to include timestamps for each location in the generated GeoJSON file.
Using DeepSeek
Since my attempt to use allStara to map John Rogers' walking tour of Clerkenwell was unsuccessful, I decided to try DeepSeek to generate my own map.
- DeepSeek prompt:- 'Extract all the locations mentioned in this video transcript (most should be in London) and then create a GeoJSON file with all the locations. - {video transcript}
- In about 40 seconds DeepSeek created a GeoJSON file with the coordinates of 38 locations it had extracted from the video.
- I then copy & pasted the GeoJSON text into geojson.io to create the map (shown below) displaying the locations mentioned in John Roger's walking tour of Clerkenwell.
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