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People Suck atNaming Places
IgniteWhere
San Jose2010/03/30
If a search falls on a map...
and nobody isaround to map
coordinatesdoes it exist?
“To be is to be perceived”
Awareness.2
Places names are...
๏Relative๏Fuzzy๏Temporal๏Variable๏All about
Perception3
Places names are...๏Historical๏Cultural๏Personal
๏Based on convention 4
Humans define places
Humans are imperfect,“namespace” of placesis really, really, messy.
Add politics, religion, ownership, language...
#l10n #i18n #hard5
Language and approximation๏ J’ai quitté mon domicile qui se situe à la
frontière des quartiers Outremont etMile-End à Montéal.
๏ Vers l’aéroport de Montréal, nommé Pierre-Elliot Trudeau, situé à Dorval, code YUL, au Québec.
๏ Direction de la côte ouest américaine, plus précisément vers SJ qui est ma destination finale.
๏ De plus, cette fin de semaine, je serais au WhereCamp chez Google.
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The Cathedral and the Bazaar
๏Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around.
๏Often, the most striking and innovative solutions come from realizing that your concept of the problem was wrong.
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One ID to Rule Them All๏ Three IDs for the WEB kings under the MS, AOL & Y!
๏ Seven for the LBS lords in their halls of stone,
๏ Nine for GIS Men doomed to die,
๏ One for the G Lord on his “non-evil” throne
๏ In the Land of the Internets where the Shadows lie.
๏ One ID to rule them all, One ID to find them,
๏ One ID to bring them all and in the darkness bind them (under a restrictive license).
WRONG!8
TIMTOWTDI
๏Find by...๏Lat/Long (duh)๏Name๏Nickname๏Neighbourhood๏Proximity๏Activity
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TIMTOWTDIBSCINABTE
๏Lightweight Identifiers๏As simple as possible๏Distributed (webwide)
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Name Repositories๏GeoNames๏Geocommons๏Placemaker๏Wikipedia/DBpedia๏ Freebase
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TextOthers? Tweetsuggestions to
@afrognthevalleywith #ignitewhere
Geographic Indexes๏OpenStreetMaps๏Maps API (you know them)๏Open Data Repos๏geodata.gov
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Others? Tweetsuggestions to
@afrognthevalleywith #ignitewhere
Linked Data & IDs schemas
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๏ WOEID (Twitter)๏ Flickr place_id๏ Google place URL๏ Freebase GUID๏ Geohash๏ Not 4SQ/GW (yet)๏ but machine tagsOthers? Tweet suggestions
to @afrognthevalleywith #ignitewhere
Activity Streams Mining
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๏Status updates๏RSS/ATOM feeds๏ActivityStrea.ms๏ Explicit๏ Implicit๏Derived
๏PlaceStrea.ms?
Most Data Licenses Suck
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Be a Data Hippie
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The World is Messy
I like it like that
It’s more work
It’s more fun
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Bootstrapping
๏BOF on matching location in unstructured text anyone?
๏WhereCamp session on Places in Activity Streams...
๏Machine Tag Exchange?
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Places are Social Containers
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Thanks!๏ http://afrog.in/ (activity stream)๏ http://afroginthevalley.com (blog)๏ @afrognthevalley on twitter๏ http://code.google.com/p/praized/๏ www.praizedmedia.com