Know Your PlaceAdding Geographic Intelligence to your ContentGary GaleDirector of Engineering
Know Your PlacePEOPLE, PLACES and THINGSatibens on Flickr :http://www.flickr.com/photos/atibens/2616899638/
Location - Connecting Places, People & ThingsKnowing where our users are, and the places that are important to themKnowing the geographic context of everything we index, manage and publishKnowing geographic locations, and the names of placesWe ConnectPlaces, People and Things
Know Your PlacePLACE BASED THINKINGalxndr on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/alxndr/16750001/
52° 11' 33.396”, -1° 42' 10.7064"
Know Your PlaceWOEIDsstevefaeembra on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevefaeembra/3567750853/
UniquePermanentGlobalLanguage NeutralLondon = Londra = Londres = ロンドンUnited States = États-Unis = StatiUniti = 미국Ensures that geography can be employed consistently and globallyBy users of Geo Technologies productsInternallyExternallystraup on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/3504862388/
GeoPlanetA Global Location RepositoryNames + Geometry +TopologyWOEIDs for cities and towns
 postal codes,  airports
 admin regions, time zones
 telephone code areas
 marketing areas
 points of interest
 colloquial areas
neighbourhoodswoodleywonderworks on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/wwworks/2222523978/
Know Your PlaceA GLOBAL GEOGRAPHICONTOLOGYdraggi on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/draggin/70742898/
United Kingdom23424975VereinigtesKönigreichEurope24865675CountryContinentRoyaume UniEngland24554868Great Britain28298150CountryColloquialイギリスWarwickshire12602190Worcestershire12602192CountyCountyEarth1SupernameStratford-on-Avon12696101DistrictStratford-upon-Avon36424Warwick39228TownTownCV3726787646ZIP
Know Your PlaceJOINING PEOPLE & CONTENTMyDigitalSLRCamera on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/40624839@N02/3784049371/
Match:Stratford-upon-AvonNeighbours:Henley-in-ArdenWarwickShipston on StourChipping CampdenEveshamAlcesterParent:Stratford-on-Avon DistrictChildren:CV37Shakespeare’s BirthplaceStratford-upon-Avon Station
Miami Florida Keys Fort LauderdaleSt PetersburgXML, Text, HTML, RSS, etc.Geo-enrich structured and unstructured content: web pages, news, feeds, blog posts, status updates
 identify places referenced, each represented by a WOEIDBeijing (x2)Beijing, China (City)	 2151330 China (x6)	China (Country) 	 23424781Tibet (x3) 	Tibet (Sheng) 	 12578004Dharamsala (x1)  Dharamsala, IN (town)  2294967London (x1) London, UK (town) 	 44418India (x1) 	India  (country) 	 23424848Geoparse ContentReturnPlaces found in text
Where  in text
Where in doc structure (title, element names, etc.)Found	        Normalized	    WOEID

Know Your Place; Adding Geographic Intelligence to your Content