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Locate Your Hacks

by Balaji Narayanan

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Locate Your Hacks - Information about Geo Technologies and Yahoo Technologies to use for Hacks. Presented at IIT Delhi, Oct 2011

Locate Your Hacks - Information about Geo Technologies and Yahoo Technologies to use for Hacks. Presented at IIT Delhi, Oct 2011

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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)

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BalajiNarayanan
Locate Your Hacks
28.55412, 77.08718
A place is not a point
What comes to your mind?
Delhi
http://www.flickr.com/photos/e_cathedra/2801527312/
Crows Fly, People Don’t
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
@balajijegan
http://balajin.net/blog/
http://slideshare.net/balajijegan/