Geo-Intelligence through Open Location

State of the Map, July 2009Gary Gale, Yahoo! Geo Technologies

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- 3 -Poolie on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/poolie/2271154446/

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- 6 -http://twitter.com/chaitanyakuber/statuses/2385639129http://twitter.com/FakeEdParsons/status/1841477287

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Open ownership, control and exchange …

Mag3737 on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/mag3737/1914076277/

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Locations get in but they don’t get out …

Erik98122 on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/erik98122/2238339566/

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Open ownership …

Wiccked on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/wiccked/133164205/

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Open control …

Takomabibelot on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/takomabibelot/234378625/

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Open exchange …

Sashafatcat on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/sashafatcat/3007623878/

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Not everyone believes in open location …

Thetruthabout on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/thetruthabout/2666006019/

- 13 -Nrbelex on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/nrbelex/454711486/

(Geo)Babel

Addresses:

Yahoo! Inc.125 Shaftesbury Ave, London, WC2H 8AD, United Kingdom

R Fidencio Ramos, 195 - 12o andar, Sao Paulo, 04551-010, Brazil

Place Names:

•Detroit, Michigan•Sri Lanka•The Bay Area•L’Arc de Triomphe•The British Museum

Location Tokens:

IP Addresses: 163.1.117.210

Cell IDLAC: 20442/6015

Wifi Beacons: #c5243b212

Coordinates:

37°49′11″N 122°28′43″W37.819722, -122.478611

37° 47′ 0″ S, 145° 7′ 30″ E-37.783333, 145.125

Golden Gate Bridge

23524702

Doncaster, AU 1095497

Oxford, UK 31278

Brest, FR 581787

Wilmington US 2521358

Detroit, MI 2391585

Sri Lanka 23424778

The Bay Area 23511738

L’Arc de Triomphe 23685956

British Museum 22474191WC2H 8AD 26368447

04551 26799311

Identifiers:

OSM Way: 65606

OSM Way: 47811

Amsterdam 727232

London UK 44418

WOEIDs

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2010

- 15 -RosselAmanzo on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/35567469@N03/3299783955/Der Willy on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/66788325@N00/429993569/Diyana Kamaruza on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/diyanakamaruza/3279036914/

- 16 -Lost Star on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/lost_star/3021981840/

A Geo Shopping List

• Coverage and completeness• What is complete?

• Data tag consistency

• Licensing• Overenthusiastic contributors adding proprietary data

• Data Quality and Integrity• Verification

• Bad data

• Duplicates

• Coordinate Data• Centroids, Bounding Boxes, Vectors

• Post Codes, Phone Codes, etc

• Addresses

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The Future

Fleurdemur on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/31334148@N07/3243531000/

- 18 -Caveman 92223 on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/caveman_92223/3185534518/

- 19 -GuruAnt on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/guruant/203090412/

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Thank you for listening …

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