Place not Space; Geo without Maps
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"Place not Space; Geo without Maps"; presented on October 1st. 2009 at FOWA (Future of Web Applications) London.
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Editor's Notes
- The placeDetails container defines a place – there’s one per place found – it holdsWOEID – the unique identifier for the placetype – the place type name for the placename – the fully qualified name of the placecentroid – the centroid coordinatesmatchType – the type of match (0=text/text & coordinates, 1=coordinates only)weight – relative weight of the place within the documentconfidence – confidence that the document mentions the place
- WOEID – list of WOEIDs referencing the placestart & end – index of first and last character in the place reference or -1 if type is XPathisPlaintextMarker – flag indicating if the reference is plain texttext – the actual place referencetype – type of reference – plaintext, Xpath, Xpathwithcountsxpath – xpath of the reference
- So now we have the places, their references and their WOEIDs we can easily hook into services which understand WOEIDsSuch as FlickrBecause not only does Flickr love you, it also knows about WOEIDs, as this YQL fragment shows
- But what about those services that don’t speak WOEID fluently?Looking back at the place definitions, we have WOEIDs.Well each WOEID has metadata attributes associated with it, such as the centroid of a place with the longitude and latitudeAnd because geo should be technologically agnostic, so must we, so with these coordinates we can use other services, such as Google Earth