Balaji Narayanan

Locate Your Hacks

28.55412, 77.08718

A place is not a point

What comes to your mind?

Delhi

Crows Fly, People Don’t

http://www.flickr.com/photos/e_cathedra/2801527312/

Where On Earth ID (WOEID)

Current Location

User Presence from Social Networks

Place Finder – Location to a Place

Geographical Hierarchy

Placemaker

Sample Applications

If you throw a Foursquare user and a Twitter user off a cliff, who would hit the ground

first?

Twitter user. Foursquare user would stop halfway down to do a check

in!

Useful Links• http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/• http://isithackday.com/hacks/geo/• http://isithackday.com/geoplanet-explorer/• http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/

geoplanet/data/

Thank You

Balaji Narayanan@balajijeganhttp://balajin.net/blog/http://slideshare.net/balajijegan/