Building geolocation into your web app is becoming a necessity for almost everyone these days. It's a complex problem though, so in this session you'll learn from how Twitter is doing this and pick up important lessons for your web app.

2. How to use Geolocation
in your web app
Raffi Krikorian, Twitter @raffi
Future of Web Apps, Dublin, 2010

3. People want to talk
about where they are

4. People want to discover
what’s around them

5. Location is -

6. Location is -
Context and Relevancy

7. Location is -
Context for production

8. Location is -
Context for consumption

9. Location is -
Globally applicable,
locally relevant

10. When people think of location,
they think of a place

11. Sometimes the actual place
doesn’t matter

13. What makes a place?

14. What makes a place?
53o20’44.5”N, 6o15’39.7”W

17. What makes a place?
Temple Bar / Dublin / Ireland

18. What makes a place?
Rome or Roma / Tokyo or

19. What makes a place?
WOEID 560743 or
twID cd7c17e3e56d7920

21. How do I get started?

22. IP-based location

24. W3C Geolocation

25. Coalition of the willing

27. Brokered location

30. Location databases

31. But, why?

32. I’m a user, and
I want the future

33. @Twitter

35. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz

37. Associated Press

42. Thanks!