GeoLocal APIs: unencumbering the geolocal ecosystem
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Location Business Summit
GeoLocal APIs
unencumbering the GeoLocal ecosystemTyler Bell
14 September 2010
[email protected]: @twbell
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Local Ecosystem
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Interconnected resources that facilitate an informed, real-world consumer experience…
The Local Ecosystem
http://www.flickr.com/photos/leafy/3826214063/
and the value of a product is proportional to how many other products it communicates with
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GeoLocal
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Built Environment and AR Daily Deals
Places and Listings
Maps Utilities, Routing, Geocoding
Social Location
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Obligatory NASCAR Logo Montage
Tyler Bell
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Three Ways In
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Application
API
CrawledContent
ContributionTo LocalEcosystem
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Monday: TechCrunch/SimpleGeo
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http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/13/what-is-it-you-do-the-need-for-simplicity/
A: See our API docs….
Q: What is it you do?
This is the only appropriate answer to a developer
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Piñata
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Marketing (paper maché)
API (candy)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/esquipulas/561125635/
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APIs are the soul of a product
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Source and Crawled Content
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robots.txt is hugely insightful
as is ‘viewing source’
…both make for lousy presentations
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Example: Google Places PM
“We are going to focus initially on check-in applications [and] have now begun reaching out to developers”
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http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2010/07/checking-in-with-places-api.html
- Google Maps API Product Manager
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Example: Google Places API TOS
• Applications may not store any Place data permanently except References and IDs.
• Place data cannot be redistributed via your own API
• May only be used in conjunction with displaying results on a Google map
• Using Place data without displaying a map for which Place data was requested is prohibited.
• May only be used in response to end user actions.
• So there.
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Paraphrased from http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/places/
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No Doors
http://www.flickr.com/photos/raulc/4429603/
Product does not facilitate new approaches, applications, or
business models
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Multiple Product Options
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brentdanley/211734796/
Product creates multiple new opportunities for exploration, integration
and experimentation
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A Look into some Local APIs
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Short commentary on what APIs reveal
(now, not planned roadmap or intentions)
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• Ease of check-in at expense of data accuracy (this is OK, and worked well)
• Massive dupe prob – solvable. Larger issue of traction has been addressed
• Search provides no name-to-venue disambiguation
• Robots.txt: restricts websearchhttp://aboutfoursquare.com/superusers-mislocated-venues/
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• Only user names exposed to crawlers
• Massive API presence (of course)
• Does not employ own metadata standards – see API note above
• Robots.txt: heavy restrictions – again, pushing for API use v. crawled content
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• No ‘place pages’, therefore no crawled metadata
• Tweets from 4sq check-ins are tied to a Twitter place – done via BD rather than API
• Three geo endpoints in API: nearby, details, and rev. geocode
• Place serves now as tweet-centric hub – more certainly coming
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• Hcard encoding on listings (nice)
• FB Like Button
• No venue resolution on search API
• Literally impersonal: no people parameters in API
• robots.txt contains ‘three laws of robotics’ (geek cred)
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foursquare:venue=516723
Krohn Conservatory
• Machine tags allow cross-reference into any namespace (incl. OSM)
• Huge API
• But also indexed and discoverable across searchhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisirmo/4560462516/
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Datawire
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Connect and Plumb
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Razorwire
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Partition and Control