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.

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

!JSON

Places vs. References

Fixes

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