Innovating on Open Location Data with Placemaker and GeoPlanet
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Innovating on Open Location; retrospective rework and recap of the deck (presented by Tyler Bell at Where 2.0 in May 2009) launching Yahoo! Placemaker. Presented at June 2009's #geomob at the British Computer Society in Covent Garden
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Innovating on Open Location Data with Placemaker and GeoPlanet
- 1. Innovating on Open Location#geomob, June 30th, 2009Gary Gale, Yahoo! Geo Technologies
- 2. Webvolution Web x: Networked World Web 1.0: Networked Documents Web 2.0: Networked People
- 3. Yahoo! Open Location Creating an Open Infrastructure for a Location-Aware Internet: Open Ownership: control and transparency Open Exchange: avoid ‘roach motel’ mentality – locations accessible across apps/devices/platforms Open Platforms: easy to use, accessible Open Data: using the same grammar and vocabulary to describe named place geography Part of the Y!OS initiative Open = Ethos and Action
- 4. GeoPlanet Millions of placenames in multiple languages WOEIDs– permanent unique identifiers Vertical and Neighboring Relationships http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/geoplanet/
- 5. Placemaker
- 7. feeds, blog posts,
- 9. Webvolution + = Web 2.0: Networked People Web 1.0: Networked Documents Web x: Networked World
- 10. Want to Know More? Look for the Placemaker tag on the Geo Technologies blog http://www.ygeoblog.com/tag/placemaker/ Browse the Placemaker forum on Yahoo! Developer Network http://www.ygeoblog.com/connect/ See Christian Heilman talk about Placemaker on YDN Tuesday on 7/7 http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2799061/
- 11. Thank you for listening … http://www.ygeoblog.com/ http://twitter.com/yahoogeo http://twitter.com/vicchi