Aware Of Only One Voice

Slide 1: Aware Of Only One Voice Aaron Straup Cope Where 2.0 2008

Slide 2: Le Corbusier “Until then men had been aware of one voice only from above — bellowing or thundering — the voice of the storm.”

Slide 3: “[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

Slide 4: Hi, my name is Aaron

Slide 5: I am not a number

Slide 6: The texture of space

Slide 7: Reverse geocoding

Slide 8: “Nearest linear object”

Slide 10: Flickr

Slide 11: country region county maybe locality neighbourhood street

Slide 12: continent (duh) country region county maybe “metro” locality and airports (and “hollywood”) (neighbourhood) “street”

Slide 13: FireEagle

Slide 14: village megatropolis

Slide 15: Dopplr

Slide 16: San Francisco San Jose

Slide 17: Geonames

Slide 18: shake before use

Slide 19: What’s going on?

Slide 20: What he said

Slide 21: Petaluma Millerton Inverness

Slide 22: Petaluma Millerton Inverness

Slide 23: Petaluma Millerton Inverness

Slide 24: millerton@cityofpetaluma.net Petaluma Millerton Inverness

Slide 25: Give up, now?

Slide 26: Corrections!

Slide 27: WOE IDs (and APIs)

Slide 28: “Persistent retrieval”

Slide 29: It’s a good problem to have

Slide 30: 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