Sylvain Carle People Suck At Naming Places (version without notes)

People Suck at Naming Places Ignite Where San Jose 2010/03/30 1

If a search falls on a map... and nobody is around to map coordinates does it exist? “To be is to be perceived” Awareness. 2

Places names are... ๏ Relative ๏ Fuzzy ๏ Temporal ๏ Variable ๏ All about Perception 3

Places names are... ๏ Historical ๏ Cultural ๏ Personal ๏ Based on convention 4

Humans deﬁne places Humans are imperfect, “namespace” of places is really, really, messy. Add politics, religion, ownership, language... #l10n #i18n #hard 5

Language and approximation ๏ J’ai quitté mon domicile qui se situe à la frontière des quartiers Outremont et Mile-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. 6

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. 7

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 9

TIMTOWTDIBSCINABTE ๏ Lightweight Identiﬁers ๏ As simple as possible ๏ Distributed (webwide) 10

Name Repositories ๏ GeoNames ๏ Geocommons ๏ Placemaker Others? Tweet ๏ Wikipedia/DBpedia Text suggestions to @afrognthevalley ๏ Freebase with #ignitewhere 11

Geographic Indexes ๏ OpenStreetMaps ๏ Maps API (you know them) ๏ Open Data Repos Others? Tweet suggestions to ๏ geodata.gov @afrognthevalley with #ignitewhere 12

Linked Data & IDs schemas ๏ WOEID (Twitter) ๏ Flickr place_id ๏ Google place URL ๏ Freebase GUID ๏ Geohash ๏ Not 4SQ/GW (yet) Others? Tweet suggestions ๏ but machine tags to @afrognthevalley with #ignitewhere 13

Activity Streams Mining ๏ Status updates ๏ RSS/ATOM feeds ๏ ActivityStrea.ms ๏ Explicit ๏ Implicit ๏ Derived ๏ PlaceStrea.ms? 14

Most Data Licenses Suck 15

Be a Data Hippie 16

The World is Messy I like it like that It’s more work It’s more fun 17

Bootstrapping ๏ BOF on matching location in unstructured text anyone? ๏ WhereCamp session on Places in Activity Streams... ๏ Machine Tag Exchange? 18

Places are Social Containers 19

Thanks! ๏ http://afrog.in/ (activity stream) ๏ http://afroginthevalley.com (blog) ๏ @afrognthevalley on twitter ๏ http://code.google.com/p/praized/ ๏ www.praizedmedia.com

Sylvain Carle People Suck At Naming Places (version without notes)

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