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Innovating on Open Location#geomob, June 30th, 2009Gary Gale, Yahoo! Geo Technologies
Webvolution Web x: Networked World Web 1.0: Networked Documents Web 2.0: Networked People
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
GeoPlanet  Millions of placenames in multiple languages WOEIDs– permanent unique identifiers  Vertical and Neighboring Relationships http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/geoplanet/
Placemaker
Placemaker Miami  Florida Keys  Fort Lauderdale St Petersburg XML, Text, HTML, RSS, etc. Geo-enrich your unstructured and atomic content: ,[object Object]
 feeds, blog posts,
 status updates, ad titles and creatives,[object Object]
Webvolution + = Web 2.0:  Networked People Web 1.0:  Networked Documents Web x: Networked World
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/

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Innovating on Open Location

  • 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/
  • 6.
  • 7. feeds, blog posts,
  • 8.
  • 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