Open hack 2011-ppt-geo

INTODUCTION TO GEO HACKINGPRAJWAL BS, OPENHACKDAY, BANGALORE 30th MARCH OF 2011

LOCATION AWARENESS FOR A BETTER LIVING!•  Navigation•  Surveying•  Business process•  Warehouse and routing•  Consumer

WHAT YAHOO OFFERS Placefinder YQL Geo and WOEIDs PlacemakerOther location-centric data   Locals, Traffic, Maps & Weather.

LOCATION IS NOT JUST (LAT,LON) •  Introducing WOEIDs •  Location as a complex object •  And sometimes it is hidden           *WOEID – Where On Earth ID.            h0p://developer.yahoo.com/geo/geoplanet/guide/concepts.html#woeids 

CONTEXTS FOR A LOCATION•  Job opportunities•  Deals•  News portal•  Matrimonial Advertisements

GEO HACKING•  GOOD NEWS! - Not hard to do.•  YQL as always has a solution tomost geo problems.

REQUIREMENTS•  Finding current location.•  Turning a location into a place.•  Finding geographical hierarchy.•  Geo-tagging information.•  Displaying geo information.

THE CREEPY WAY – IP SNIFFING

IP SNIFFING

EXAMPLEh0p://isithackday.com/hacks/geo/js‐locaDon.html 

NON CREEPY AND MORE ACCURATE W3C GEOLOCATION API

EXAMPLE

USERS SOCIAL PRESENCE•  Get location information from users socialpresence.•  FireEagle, Twitter, Yahoo, Brightkite,Facebook, Foursquare, Gowalla etc.

LOCATION BROKERAGE - FIREEAGLE

FIREEAGLE – API’S

GEOCODING AND REVERSE-GEOCODING converting street addresses or place names into geographic coordinates (and vice versa).h0p://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/#h=desc%20geo.placeﬁnder 

PLACEFINDER

PLACEFINDER RESULTh0p://developer.yahoo.com/geo/placeﬁnder/ 

YQL GEO.PLACES.*•  geo.places.ancestors•  geo.places.belongtos•  geo.places.children•  geo.places.common•  geo.places.descendants•  geo.places.neighbors•  geo.places.parent•  geo.places.siblings

GEO-PLANET EXPLORERh0p://isithackday.com/geoplanet‐explorer/geodrilldown.php 

PLACEMAKERTakes text/web URL andextracts the geographicalinformation from it.SELECT * FROMgeo.placemaker WHEREdocumentContent = "Hey, Iam in bangalore now. Willvisit mumbai and delhibefore going back tosunnyvale" ANDdocumentType="text/plain"

EXAMPLESSELECT * FROM geo.placemaker WHEREdocumentURL = "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country" AND documentType="text/html”SELECT * FROM geo.placemaker WHEREdocumentURL = "http://timesofindia.feedsportal.com/c/33039/f/533917/index.rss" AND documentType="text/rss" h0p://developer.yahoo.com/geo/placemaker/ 

PLOT LAT/LON ON YAHOO MAPS!

USEFUL LINKShttp://isithackday.com/hacks/geo/http://isithackday.com/geoplanet-explorer/http://isithackday.com/hacks/geo/yql-geo-library/http://www.hostip.info/

LETS LOCATE YOUR HACK! THANKS!! If you throw a guy on Foursquare and a guy on Twitter off a cliff, which one would hit the ground first?The guy on Twitter. The guy on Foursquare would have to stop halfway down to check in!PRAJWAL BSTwitter - @prajwalbsSlideshare - http://www.slideshare.net/prajwalbsFacebook - http://www.facebook.com/prajwalbs

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