@ Social Developer Summit June 29, 2010

Friday, July 2, 2010

Hi, I’m Mike

Mike Malone@mjmalone

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Once upon a time...

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The Founders

the Joe Stump

the Matt Galligan

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A VisionAugmented reality gaming!•With these smart phone thingies, gameplay

can depend on things that are happening in the real world• You can only shoot people who are physically

within range of your ICBMs• Price of digital representations of real-world

things can depend on real-world demand

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A RealizationLocation is hard.•Where do we get all this data: real-time

foot traffic, bus schedules, checkins, reviews, business listings, tagged photos...

•Once we have it, where do we put it...•Once we have all the data, and we’ve put it

somewhere, how do we understand it...

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EUREKA!

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What’s SimpleGeoA set of simple tools that will help you make your projects geo-aware•Marketplace: uniform interface to lots of

interesting geo-data•Storage Engine: REST API for storing and

querying geo-data•Analytics / Intelligence: Coming soon... in

fact, I probably shouldn’t even be talking about this. Forget I even mentioned it.

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MarketplaceConnects people who have geo-data with people who need geo-data•Available now: free layers containing U.S.

business listings, global place names, weather data, earthquake data, etc.

•Tons more coming soon (our biz dev dude is crazy busy)

•We’re opening it up — soon anyone will be able to make data available for free or for a per-query or monthly fee

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Storage EngineRecord•A GeoJSON object with an ID, coordinates,

and any number of arbitrary attributes

Layer•A container for Records that can be public

or private•Store Records in Layers, and query Layers

for Records in a particular area

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Core APIStore Record PUT /0.1/records/<layer>/<id>.json

Get a Record GET /0.1/records/<layer>/<id>.json

Nearby Records

GET /0.1/records/<layer>/nearby/<lat>,<lon>.json?radius=<radius-in-meters>

Where’s a Record been GET /0.1/records/<layer>/<id>/history.json

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PushpinFind out which [geopolitical / administrative] boundaries contain a point• Get the country, county, province, city,

neighborhood, postal code, zip code, census tract, legislative district, etc. for a point

• Get a detailed polygon boundary for a particular boundary (city, county, country, etc.)

• Get boundaries that overlap a particular bounding box

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Pushpin APIGet boundaries GET /0.1/contains/{lat},{lon}.json

Get boundary polygon GET /0.1/boundary/{id}.json

Get overlapping boundaries

GET /0.1/overlaps/{south},{west},{north},{east}.json

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Other Stuff

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SpotRankData-intelligence service from SkyHook that shows the density of people in a geographic area by time

Get density of location by day

GET /0.1/density/{dayname}/{hour}/{lat},{lon}.json

Get density of location by

hourGET /0.1/density/{dayname}/{lat},{lon}.json

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API ClientsWe’ve got lots of them•Python, Ruby, Java, Object-C, PHP, Perl,

etc... No FORTRAN support yet•Paving the cow-paths with higher level

abstractions for common use caseshttp://github.com/simplegeo

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iPhone AR ToolkitAn augmented reality environment for the iPhone•Provides turnkey AR capabilities for data in

a SimpleGeo layerhttp://github.com/simplegeo/SGAREnvironment

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iPhone MapKitAn enhanced MapKit view for the iPhone•Quickly display data from a SimpleGeo layer

on a iPhone MapView• iOS 4 background location supporthttp://github.com/simplegeo/SGMapKit

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Questions..?I’m around!

@mjmalone / mike@simplegeo.com

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