Geo-intelligence Through Open Location

Geo-Intelligence through Open LocationState of the Map, July 2009Gary Gale, Yahoo! Geo Technologies

Poolie on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/poolie/2271154446/

http://twitter.com/chaitanyakuber/statuses/2385639129
http://twitter.com/FakeEdParsons/status/1841477287

Open ownership, control and exchange …
Mag3737 on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/mag3737/1914076277/

Locations get in but they don’t get out …
Erik98122 on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/erik98122/2238339566/

Open ownership …
Wiccked on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/wiccked/133164205/

Open control …
Takomabibelot on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/takomabibelot/234378625/

Open exchange …
Sashafatcat on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/sashafatcat/3007623878/

Not everyone believes in open location…
Thetruthabout on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/thetruthabout/2666006019/

(Geo)Babel
Addresses:
Yahoo! Inc.
125 Shaftesbury Ave, London, WC2H 8AD, United Kingdom
R Fidencio Ramos, 195 - 12o andar, Sao Paulo, 04551-010, Brazil
Place Names:
Detroit, Michigan
Sri Lanka
The Bay Area
L’Arc de Triomphe
The British Museum
Location Tokens:
IP Addresses: 163.1.117.210
Cell IDLAC: 20442/6015
Wifi Beacons: #c5243b212
Coordinates:
37°49′11″N 122°28′43″W
37.819722, -122.478611
37° 47′ 0″ S, 145° 7′ 30″ E-37.783333, 145.125
Identifiers:
OSM Way: 65606
OSM Way: 47811
WOEIDs
Nrbelex on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/nrbelex/454711486/

DiyanaKamaruza on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/diyanakamaruza/3279036914/
RosselAmanzo on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/35567469@N03/3299783955/
Der Willy on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/66788325@N00/429993569/

Lost Star on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/lost_star/3021981840/
A Geo Shopping List
Coverage and completeness
What is complete?
Data tag consistency
Licensing
Overenthusiastic contributors adding proprietary data
Data Quality and Integrity
Verification
Bad data
Duplicates
Coordinate Data
Centroids, Bounding Boxes, Vectors
Post Codes, Phone Codes, etc
Addresses

The Future
Fleurdemur on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/31334148@N07/3243531000/

Caveman 92223 on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/caveman_92223/3185534518/

GuruAnt on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/guruant/203090412/

Thank you for listening …
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Geo-intelligence Through Open Location

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