Introducing Placemaker

Introducing Placemaker Christian Heilmann | http://wait-till-i.com | http://twitter.com/codepo8 YDN Tuesday at Skills Matter, London, UK, July 2009

Spatial Fanboy

Placemaker http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/placemaker/

Thanks. Any questions?

A web of information

Searching & Finding

Analysing & deciding http://www.flickr.com/photos/briannasdksdk/1698458575/

Human additives

Mobility http://vimeo.com/2638558

Hidden goodies

Free Text Places URL References

First we take Manhattan, and then we take Berlin.

Calling Placemaker http://wherein.yahooapis.com/v1/ document documentContent=First+we+take +Manhattan+and+then+we+take +Berlin. documentType=text/plain appid=my_appid

Parameters appid - nothing happens without it! inputLanguage documentURL fr-CA,de-DE... url to analyze outputType documentType xml or RSS MIME type of doc documentContent autoDisambiguate text to analyse remove duplicates documentTitle focusWoeid additional title filter around a woeid

First we take Manhattan, and then we take Berlin.

Working with Placemaker results

Places

References

Annoyances

50,000 bytes

The broken web

POST vs. GET

Places vs. References

YQL to fix the web.

Connecting places and references

http://isithackday.com/hacks/placemaker/simpletext.php

YQL open table for GET and JSON

Good news, everyone!

http://isithackday.com/hacks/placemaker/placemaker-javascript.html

Implementations

Yahoo News Map http://isithackday.com/hacks/placemaker/map.php

TweetLocations http://isithackday.com/hacks/placemaker/tweet-locations.php

Geo this! (Greasemonkey) http://icanhaz.com/geothis

GeoMaker Collaboration http://icant.co.uk/geomaker/

GeoMaker API http://icant.co.uk/geomaker/api.php

JS Placemaker http://icant.co.uk/jsplacemaker/

You have the data...

You have the tools...

All you need is a great idea.

Flickr knows woeid :)

http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/data-store

T H A N K S ! Keep in touch: Christian Heilmann http://wait-till-i.com http://scriptingenabled.org http://twitter.com/codepo8

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