Part of "Going Places on Flickr: The Significance of Geographical Information in Photos" (tiny:url=3zuqsv) presented with Dan Catt. (Still waiting for Dan to post the complete slides)

1. Aware Of Only One Voice
Aaron Straup Cope
Where 2.0 2008

2. Le Corbusier
“Until then men had been aware of one
voice only from above — bellowing or
thundering — the voice of the storm.”

3. “[W]e can lay a persistently retrievable
history of the things that are done and
witnessed there over any place that can
be specified with lat/long coordinates.”
Adam Greenfield

4. Hi, my name is Aaron

5. I am not a number

6. The texture of space

7. Reverse geocoding

8. “Nearest linear object”

10. Flickr

11. country
region
county maybe
locality
neighbourhood
street

12. continent (duh)
country
region
county maybe
“metro”
locality and airports (and “hollywood”)
(neighbourhood)
“street”

13. FireEagle

14. village megatropolis

15. Dopplr

16. San Francisco
San Jose

17. Geonames

18. shake before use

19. What’s going on?

20. What he said

21. Petaluma
Millerton
Inverness

22. Petaluma
Millerton
Inverness

23. Petaluma
Millerton
Inverness

24. millerton@cityofpetaluma.net
Petaluma
Millerton
Inverness

25. Give up, now?

26. Corrections!

27. WOE IDs (and APIs)

28. “Persistent retrieval”

29. It’s a good problem to have

30. http://flickr.com/photos/straup/2255564465/
http://tinyurl.com/5n9z2f
http://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/1065896029
http://flickr.com/photos/heather/2115985327/
http://flickr.com/photos/straup/322405443
http://flickr.com/photos/julianbleecker/2434362687
http://flickr.com/photos/nearnearfuture/245027280/
http://flickr.com/photos/straup/1749018945
http://flickr.com/photos/straup/2261077949
http://flickr.com/photos/straup/1557078849
http://flickr.com/photos/straup/2375245599/
http://flickr.com/photos/kellan/2076404433
http://flickr.com/photos/george/474737715/
http://flickr.com/photos/straup/860537013
http://flickr.com/photos/straup/181642895
http://flickr.com/photos/straup/2452755735