LOCATE YOUR HACKSSunil Pai, Y!

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION“irl”

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“COORDINATES”

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“PLACES” ARE NOT POINTS

protip- neither are directions!

CURRENT LOCATIONhttp://isithackday.com/hacks/geo/distance.php

WOEIDs and morehttp://developer.yahoo.com/geo/geoplanet/guide/concepts.html#woeids

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NO STANDARDS

Tōkyō-to, Shinjuku-ku, Nishishinjuku, ５丁目５−２３

No. 512-A, 2nd Cross, 5th main, Opp. Water Tank

27 Escombe Ave, Johannesburg 2193, South Africa

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LET’S GO MEET THE SIMPSONS

BIG UNSTRUCTURED DATA Bring out the big guns.

APIs-Data.

-Interface.

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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 placeselect 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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INTERFACE

OSM + Leaflet http://switch2osm.org/using-tiles/getting-started-with-leaflet/

YUI + YQL – everything else!

Bonus – Mapbox’s TileMillhttp://mapbox.com/tilemill/

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LINKS AND STUFF

•http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/

•http://isithackday.com/hacks/geo/

•http://isithackday.com/geoplanet-explorer/

•http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/geoplanet/data/

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GO FORTH AND FIND YOURSELF