Locate Your Hacks and Discover Places with Geolocation Tools
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This document discusses location-based technologies and applications. It provides information on locating places based on coordinates, mapping places to hierarchical geographical data, identifying locations from social network activity, and examples of place-finding applications. It also includes links to additional geo-location and mapping APIs and resources. The document is presented by Balaji Narayanan and includes his contact information.
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- 1. BalajiNarayanan Locate Your Hacks
- 3. A place is not a point
- 4. What comes to your mind?
- 5. Delhi
- 6. http://www.flickr.com/photos/e_cathedra/2801527312/ Crows Fly, People Don’t
- 7. Where On Earth ID (WOEID)
- 9. User Presence from Social Networks
- 10. Place Finder – Location to a Place
- 12. Placemaker
- 14. If you throw a Foursquare user and a Twitter user off a cliff, who would hit the ground first?
- 15. Twitter user. Foursquare user would stop halfway down to do a check in!
Editor's Notes
- Named Places, Shapes
- People relate to places: Listings and POIs
- select name,country from geo.places(100) where text='Delhi'http://isithackday.com/geoplanet-explorer/index.php?start=Delhi
- Calculating Distances, Radial Distances, Routing, Nearest Place etc.
- http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/geoplanet/guide/concepts.html#woeidsPoints, Line Segments and PolygonsTangled Hierarchies and RelationshipsSemantic associations and decorationsBounding Boxes and Centroids
- http://isithackday.com/hacks/geo/distance.php
- LatitudeFace Book PlacesFireeagleFoursquareRummble- for people and places you loveLocl – Location Based Social NetworkingLoopt – Discover the world around you
- select * from geo.placefinder where text='28.55412, 77.08718' and gflags='R’http://isithackday.com/hacks/geo/placefinder/
- http://isithackday.com/geoplanet-explorer/index.php?woeid=20070458select placeTypeName, name from geo.places.belongtos where member_woeid in (select woeid from geo.places where text="New Delhi, India" limit 1)