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Introducing Placemaker
Christian Heilmann | http://wait-till-i.com | http://twitter.com/codepo8YDN Tuesday at Skills Matter, London, UK, July 2009
Spatial
Fanboy
Placemaker
http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/placemaker/
Thanks.Any questions?
A web of information
Searching & Finding
Analysing & deciding
http://www.flickr.com/photos/briannasdksdk/1698458575/
Human additives
Hidden goodies
Free Text
URL
Places
References
First we take Manhattan, and then we take Berlin.
Calling Placemaker
http://wherein.yahooapis.com/v1/document
documentContent=First+we+take+Manhattan+and+then+we+take+Berlin. documentType=text/plain appid=my_appid
ParametersinputLanguagefr-CA,de-DE... outputTypexml or RSSdocumentContenttext to analysedocumentTitleadditional title
documentURLurl to analyzedocumentTypeMIME type of docautoDisambiguateremove duplicatesfocusWoeidfilter around a woeid
appid - nothing happens without it!
First we take Manhattan, and then we take Berlin.
First we take Manhattan, and then we take Berlin.
Working with Placemaker results
Places
References
Annoyances
50,000 bytes
The broken web
POST vs. GET
!JSON
Places vs. References
Fixes
YQL to fix the web.
Connecting places and references
http://isithackday.com/hacks/placemaker/simpletext.php
YQL open table for GET and JSON
Good news, everyone!
http://isithackday.com/hacks/placemaker/placemaker-javascript.html
Implementations
Yahoo News Maphttp://isithackday.com/hacks/placemaker/map.php
TweetLocationshttp://isithackday.com/hacks/placemaker/tweet-locations.php
Geo this! (Greasemonkey)http://icanhaz.com/geothis
Collaborationhttp://icant.co.uk/geomaker/GeoMaker
GeoMaker APIhttp://icant.co.uk/geomaker/api.php
JS Placemakerhttp://icant.co.uk/jsplacemaker/
You have the data...
You have the tools...
All you
need is
a great
idea.
Flickr knows woeid :)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/data-store
Keep in touch:
Christian Heilmann
http://wait-till-i.com
http://scriptingenabled.org
http://twitter.com/codepo8
T H A N K S !