where2.0 2008, the one where we gripe about reverse geocoding
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Aaron and I were asked to chat about stuff at Where2.0 a while ago, here are the slides to I can link a Flickr Dev Blog post about it.TRANSCRIPT
Going Places on Flickr: The Significance of
Geographical Informationin Photos
Catt (with Cope)
Where 2.0 2008
State the problem:
Garbage in, Garbage out.
It goes both ways!
How does that happen?
99.9999999% of the time, that’s just fine
(ish)
Why is it so hard the other way round?
“Until then men had been aware of one voice only from above — bellowing or thundering — the voice of the storm.”
Le Corbusier
“[W]e can lay a persistently retrievable history of the things that are done and
witnessed there over any place that can specified with lat/long coordinates.”
Adam Greenfield
Hi, my name is Aaron
I am not a number
Places have meaning
Reverse geocoding
“Nearest linear object”
Flickr
neighbourhood
locality
county
region
country
street
maybe
locality
county
region
country
continent
and airports (and “hollywood”)
maybe
“metro”
“street”
(neighbourhood)
(duh)
FireEagle
village megatropolis
Dopplr
San Jose
San Francisco
Geonames
shake before use
What’s going on?
What he said
Inverness
Millerton
Petaluma
Petaluma
Inverness
Millerton
Petaluma
Inverness
Millerton
Give up, now?
Corrections!
Let’s look at Crusty Bottom Gulch again.
Give up now, or ask for help?
Still, not perfect (or is it?)
U2 - Can still say where (someday, maybe)
I still haven’t found what I’m looking for
WOE IDs (and APIs)
http://flickr.com/photos/straup/2255564465/http://tinyurl.com/5n9z2fhttp://speedbird.wordpress.com/2008/05/04/the-long-here-and-the-big-now/http://flickr.com/photos/heather/2379084552/http://flickr.com/photos/mtlweblog/185132626/http://flickr.com/photos/jlbove/2346874577/http://flickr.com/photos/straup/1065896029http://flickr.com/photos/heather/2115985327/http://flickr.com/photos/straup/322405443http://flickr.com/photos/julianbleecker/2434362687http://flickr.com/photos/nearnearfuture/245027280/http://flickr.com/photos/straup/1749018945http://flickr.com/photos/straup/2261077949http://flickr.com/photos/straup/1557078849http://flickr.com/photos/straup/2375245599/http://flickr.com/photos/kellan/2076404433http://flickr.com/photos/george/474737715/http://flickr.com/photos/straup/860537013http://flickr.com/photos/straup/181642895http://flickr.com/photos/straup/2452755735
It’s a good problem to have