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This document provides guidance on using location data and APIs for hack projects. It discusses using standards like WOEIDs to identify locations, and APIs from Yahoo and OpenStreetMaps to geocode addresses, find places near a point, and get place details. The document encourages using these data sources and interfaces to build projects that incorporate location.

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Locate your hacks
LOCATE YOUR HACKS Sunil Pai, Y!
LOCATION, LOCATION, LO CATION irl
C或或檎禽鴛鰻粥意掘皆 4
PLACES ARE NOT POINTS protip- neither are directions! 5
CURRENT LOCATION http://isithackday.com/hacks/geo/distance.php
WOEIDs and more http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/geoplanet/guide/concepts.html# woeids
NO STANDARDS Tky-to, Shinjuku-ku, Nishishinjuku, No. 512-A, 2nd Cross, 5th main, Opp. Water Tank 27 Escombe Ave, Johannesburg 2193, South Africa 8
LETS GO MEET THE SIMPSONS 9
BIG UNSTRUCTURED DATA Bring out the big guns.
APIs -Data. -Interface.
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) 12
INTERFACE OSM + Leaflet http://switch2osm.org/using-tiles/getting-started-with-leaflet/ YUI + YQL everything else! Bonus MapboxsTileMill http://mapbox.com/tilemill/ 13
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/ 14
GO FORTH AND FIND YOURSELF 15

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Editor's Notes

  1. What is a location? What is the earth like? Lat, Lon. Altitude? GPS?South, West, North, land up in the same place. Where? North Pole!
  2. Indeed, everythings a shape. Introdice the woeidDirections - Distances - Geometry, 'speed' affects decision to take a route - Calculating Distances, Radial Distances, Routing, Nearest Place etc.
  3. Anyone with an iphone here? [mention the arrow]Geolocationapi / geoip resolution http://isithackday.com/hacks/geo/distance.php
  4. People don't think in tuples/ lat lon pairs- Named places, Listings, POIs. Addresses.
  5. Mention delhi east timor, michigan, etchttp://isithackday.com/geoplanet-explorer/index.php?start=Delhiselect name,country from geo.places(100) where text='Delhi'
  6. 3. Placefinder http://isithackday.com/hacks/geo/placefinder/4. http://isithackday.com/geoplanet-explorer/index.php?woeid=20070458
  7. Talk about OSM at lengthhttp://maps.stamen.com/watercolor/#12/37.7706/-122.3782<- wow