locate your hacks
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Locate Your Hacks - Information about Geo Technologies and Yahoo Technologies to use for Hacks. Presented at IIT Delhi, Oct 2011TRANSCRIPT
Balaji Narayanan
Locate Your Hacks
28.55412, 77.08718
A place is not a point
What comes to your mind?
Delhi
Crows Fly, People Don’t
http://www.flickr.com/photos/e_cathedra/2801527312/
Where On Earth ID (WOEID)
Current Location
User Presence from Social Networks
Place Finder – Location to a Place
Geographical Hierarchy
Placemaker
Sample Applications
If you throw a Foursquare user and a Twitter user off a cliff, who would hit the ground
first?
Twitter user. Foursquare user would stop halfway down to do a check
in!
Useful Links• http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/• http://isithackday.com/hacks/geo/• http://isithackday.com/geoplanet-explorer/• http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/
geoplanet/data/
Thank You
Balaji Narayanan@balajijeganhttp://balajin.net/blog/http://slideshare.net/balajijegan/