2. LOCATE YOUR HACKS
Sunil Pai, Y!

3. LOCATION, LOCATION, LO
CATION
“irl”

4. “COORDINATES”
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5. “PLACES” ARE NOT POINTS
protip- neither are directions!
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6. CURRENT LOCATION
http://isithackday.com/hacks/geo/distance.php

7. WOEIDs and more
http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/geoplanet/guide/concepts.html#
woeids

8. NO STANDARDS
Tōkyō-to, Shinjuku-ku, Nishishinjuku, −
No. 512-A, 2nd Cross, 5th main, Opp. Water Tank
27 Escombe Ave, Johannesburg 2193, South Africa
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9. LET’S GO MEET THE SIMPSONS
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10. BIG UNSTRUCTURED
DATA
Bring out the big guns.

11. APIs
-Data.
-Interface.

12. DATA
Cheatsheet!
scan your text and extract “places”
select * from geo.placemaker where documentContent = "aruba, jamaica, ooh I wanna take ya" and
documentType="text/plain"
find details about a place
-select name,country from geo.places(100) where text='Delhi’
find what places are at a point
select * from geo.placefinder where text='12.973111, 77.611541748' and gflags='R’
geographical info of a place
select placeTypeName, name from geo.places.belongtos where member_woeid in (select woeid from
geo.places where text="New Delhi, India" limit 1)
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13. INTERFACE
OSM + Leaflet
http://switch2osm.org/using-tiles/getting-started-with-leaflet/
YUI + YQL – everything else!
Bonus – Mapbox’sTileMill
http://mapbox.com/tilemill/
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14. LINKS AND STUFF
•http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/
•http://isithackday.com/hacks/geo/
•http://isithackday.com/geoplanet-explorer/
•http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/geoplanet/data/
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15. GO FORTH
AND FIND
YOURSELF
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