8. NO STANDARDS
Tōkyō-to, Shinjuku-ku, Nishishinjuku, −
No. 512-A, 2nd Cross, 5th main, Opp. Water Tank
27 Escombe Ave, Johannesburg 2193, South Africa
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12. DATA
Cheatsheet!
scan your text and extract “places”
select * from geo.placemaker where documentContent = "aruba, jamaica, ooh I wanna take ya" and
documentType="text/plain"
find details about a place
-select name,country from geo.places(100) where text='Delhi’
find what places are at a point
select * from geo.placefinder where text='12.973111, 77.611541748' and gflags='R’
geographical info of a place
select placeTypeName, name from geo.places.belongtos where member_woeid in (select woeid from
geo.places where text="New Delhi, India" limit 1)
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What is a location? What is the earth like? Lat, Lon. Altitude? GPS?South, West, North, land up in the same place. Where? North Pole!
Indeed, everything’s a shape. Introdice the woeidDirections - Distances - Geometry, 'speed' affects decision to take a route - Calculating Distances, Radial Distances, Routing, Nearest Place etc.
Anyone with an iphone here? [mention the arrow]Geolocationapi / geoip resolution http://isithackday.com/hacks/geo/distance.php
People don't think in tuples/ lat lon pairs- Named places, Listings, POIs. Addresses.
Mention delhi – east timor, michigan, etchttp://isithackday.com/geoplanet-explorer/index.php?start=Delhiselect name,country from geo.places(100) where text='Delhi'
