Aware Of Only One Voice
Aaron Straup Cope
Where 2.0 2008

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

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

Hi, my name is Aaron

I am not a number

The texture of space

Reverse geocoding

“Nearest linear object”

Flickr

country
region
county maybe
locality
neighbourhood
street

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

FireEagle

village megatropolis

Dopplr

San Francisco
San Jose

Geonames

shake before use

What’s going on?

What he said

Petaluma
Millerton
Inverness

Petaluma
Millerton
Inverness

Petaluma
Millerton
Inverness

millerton@cityofpetaluma.net
Petaluma
Millerton
Inverness

Give up, now?

Corrections!

WOE IDs (and APIs)

“Persistent retrieval”

It’s a good problem to have

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