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

Mobility

http://vimeo.com/2638558

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://developer.yahoo.com/geo/

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 !