Where2.0 2008, The One Where We Gripe About Reverse Geocoding

Slide 1: Going Places on Flickr: The Significance of Geographical Information in Photos Catt (with Cope) Where 2.0 2008

Slide 2: State the problem:

Slide 3: Garbage in, Garbage out. It goes both ways!

Slide 4: How does that happen?

Slide 5: 99.9999999% of the time, that’s just fine (ish)

Slide 6: Why is it so hard the other way round?

Slide 7: Le Corbusier “Until then men had been aware of one voice only from above — bellowing or thundering — the voice of the storm.”

Slide 8: “[W]e can lay a persistently retrievable history of the things that are done and witnessed there over any place that can specified with lat/long coordinates.” Adam Greenfield

Slide 9: Hi, my name is Aaron

Slide 10: I am not a number

Slide 11: Places have meaning

Slide 12: Reverse geocoding

Slide 13: “Nearest linear object”

Slide 15: Flickr

Slide 16: country region county maybe locality neighbourhood street

Slide 17: continent (duh) country region county maybe “metro” locality and airports (and “hollywood”) (neighbourhood) “street”

Slide 18: FireEagle

Slide 19: village megatropolis

Slide 20: Dopplr

Slide 21: San Francisco San Jose

Slide 22: Geonames

Slide 23: shake before use

Slide 24: What’s going on?

Slide 25: What he said

Slide 26: Petaluma Millerton Inverness

Slide 27: Petaluma Millerton Inverness

Slide 28: Petaluma Millerton Inverness

Slide 29: millerton@cityofpetaluma.net Petaluma Millerton Inverness

Slide 30: Give up, now?

Slide 31: Corrections!

Slide 32: Let’s look at Crusty Bottom Gulch again. Give up now, or ask for help?

Slide 35: Still, not perfect (or is it?)

Slide 36: I still haven’t found what I’m looking for U2 - Can still say where (someday, maybe)

Slide 38: WOE IDs (and APIs)

Slide 42: http://flickr.com/photos/straup/2255564465/ http://tinyurl.com/5n9z2f http://speedbird.wordpress.com/2008/05/04/the-long-here-and-the-big-now/ http://flickr.com/photos/heather/2379084552/ http://flickr.com/photos/mtlweblog/185132626/ http://flickr.com/photos/jlbove/2346874577/ http://flickr.com/photos/straup/1065896029 http://flickr.com/photos/heather/2115985327/ http://flickr.com/photos/straup/322405443 http://flickr.com/photos/julianbleecker/2434362687 http://flickr.com/photos/nearnearfuture/245027280/ http://flickr.com/photos/straup/1749018945 http://flickr.com/photos/straup/2261077949 http://flickr.com/photos/straup/1557078849 http://flickr.com/photos/straup/2375245599/ http://flickr.com/photos/kellan/2076404433 http://flickr.com/photos/george/474737715/ http://flickr.com/photos/straup/860537013 http://flickr.com/photos/straup/181642895 http://flickr.com/photos/straup/2452755735

Slide 43: It’s a good problem to have