a sense of place

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Gary Gale, Director, Places Registry

gary.gale@nokia.comtwitter.com/vicchi

The Location Business Summit Europe 2011Amsterdam, May 201152.37273, 4.8944

A Sense Of Place

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Gary Gale, Director, Places Registry

gary.gale@nokia.comtwitter.com/vicchi

WhereCamp EU 2011Berlin, May 201152.536997, 13.408315

A Sense Of Place

Tom Coates on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/plasticbag/4475788424/

About Me …Director, Places Registry, Nokia

Previously Director, Yahoo! Geo TechnologiesBlogger: http://www.vicchi.org

Tweeter: http://twitter.com/vicchi

William Nicholson on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/messiaen/2066161937/

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In The Beginning Was The Map

Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the BPL on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/normanbleventhalmapcenter/2675672726/

Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the BPL on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/normanbleventhalmapcenter/2710792122/

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The Map Was Not Ubiquitous

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The Map Was Not Democratic

Sue Clarke on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/perpetualplum/4775662240/

Andrew Myers on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/lifesgreatadventures/491420858/

Howard on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/innpictime/3094017816/

Sarah Barker on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/sarahgb/4518082475/

Joe Bennett on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/jbennett/168171561/

Jaina on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/pizzagirl/4854457974/

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The Map Was Becoming Ubiquitous

quimby on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/orqwith/4585238744/

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The Map Was Still Not Democratic

Paul Adams on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/padday/3213420864/

Paul Adams on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/padday/3213420864/

Paul Adams on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/padday/3213420864/

Martin Phillip on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/49602327@N04/5472778729/

Ben Smith on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/ben_smith_uk/4292933460/

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Ben Smith on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/ben_smith_uk/4292933460/

J Brew on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/brewbooks/3648121891/

Ben Smith on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/ben_smith_uk/4292933460/

Ben Smith on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/ben_smith_uk/4292933460/

Ben Smith on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/ben_smith_uk/4292933460/

Ben Smith on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/ben_smith_uk/4292933460/

Ben Smith on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/ben_smith_uk/4292933460/

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The Map Is Now Ubiquitous

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The Map Is Now Democratic

Horia Varlan on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/horiavarlan/4290549806/

2Tales on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/stigster/3761714132/

Dennis Hurd on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennissylvesterhurd/4958013228/

terren on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/8136496@N05/2327243497/

Waleed Alzuhair on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/waleedalzuhair/2492158122/

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But …

Doc Searles on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/docsearls/5500714140/

Alexandre Dulaunoy on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/adulau/3011878917/

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“Here is the problem: These efforts at creating an underlying database of places are duplicative, and any competitive advantage any single company gets from being more comprehensive than the rest will be short-lived at best. It is time for an open database of places which all companies and developers can both contribute to and borrow from. But in order for such a database to be useful, the biggest and fastest-growing Geo companies need to contribute to it.”

It’s Time For An Open Database Of Places

http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/17/open-database-places/

Aleks on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/toastkid/5271846584/

Doc Searles on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/docsearls/5500714140/

Wirawat Lian-udom on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/mytudut/5197551003/

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Place

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POI

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Landmark

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Location

Melvin Gaal on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/94379417@N00/4808475862/

Joe Forjette on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/joeforjette/2258604974/

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Place?POI?

Landmark?Location?

Anthony Kelly on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/62337512@N00/3902764265/

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Place?POI?

Landmark?Location?

M. H. Stevens on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/ick9s/2671199350/

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Place?POI?

Landmark?Location?

Megan Morris on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/megangoodchild/3086517327/

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Place?POI?

Landmark?Location?

Brian on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/lincolnian/107200013/

Salmon Of Doubt on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/salmonofdoubt/60165838/

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Place?POI?

Landmark?Location?

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Maybe We Need A Standard?

Dave Rutt on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/rutty/361579360/

Jamie McIntyre on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/obstreperously/2446025901/

Vit Brunner on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/tasuki/3503304405/

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Max Froumentin on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/maxf/112944254/

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Place Working Group?POI Working Group?

Landmark Working Group?Location Working Group?

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“The term location is used to refer to a geographical construct, a physically fixed point, typically on the surface of the Earth (relative to WGS-84), though locations can be relative to another coordinate system. Locations can be a single point, a centroid, a minimum bounding rectangle, or a set of vectors. A location should be persistent over time and does not change.”

Location

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“Unlike the term location, the term POI is a human construct. POIs describe information about locations such as name, category, unique identifier, or civic address.”

Points Of Interest

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“A place is also a human construct which typically has a coarse level of spatial granularity. Places are generally larger scale administrative constructs, either informally or formally defined. Countries, states, counties, districts, neighborhoods and postal codes or telephone area codes are all places. Places are also informally or colloquially defined, such as the Home Counties in the United Kingdom and the Bay Area in the United States.

Places have spatial relationships; with parents, children, adjacencies and contained by semantics. Places also have the same attribute set as POIs, although with differing interpretations based on scale; for example, the address of a Place or its URI would refer to the address of the administrative or governing body of the place.

A place typically contains multiple POIs and can also be coterminous with a POI. In the former case, a place, such as a city or a neighborhood, will contain multiple POIs. In the latter case, a place and a POI will occupy the same position and extent, such as in the case of Yellowstone National Park, which is both a Place and a POI.”

Place

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><pois>

<poi id="StataCenter" xml:lang="en-US" >

<label primary="true" xml:lang="en-US">Stata Center</label><label primary="true" xml:lang="es">Stata Centro</label><label>Ray and Maria Stata Center</label><label>Building 32</label><label>Gates Tower</label><label>Dreyfoos Tower</label>

<location id="location1"><point latitude="42.360890561289295" longitude="-71.09139204025269"/>

<point id="mainpoint" latitude="27.174799" longitude="78.042111" altitude="10m"/>

<center latitude="27.174799" longitude="78.042111"/>

<route><point order="0" latitude="42.360890561289295" longitude="-71.09139204025269"/><point order="1" latitude="42.361176" longitude="-71.09018"/><point order="2" latitude="42.36272976137689" longitude="-71.09049081802368"/><point order="3" latitude="42.36318955298668" longitude="-71.09677791595459"/><point order="4" latitude="42.363617631805496" longitude="-71.10156297683716"/>

</route>

<area><point order="0" latitude="42.360890561289295" longitude="-71.09139204025269"/><point order="1" latitude="42.361176" longitude="-71.09018"/><point order="2" latitude="42.36272976137689" longitude="-71.09049081802368"/><point order="3" latitude="42.36318955298668" longitude="-71.09677791595459"/><point order="4" latitude="42.363617631805496" longitude="-71.10156297683716"/><point order="5" latitude="42.360890561289295" longitude="-71.09139204025269"/>

</area>

<undetermined/>

<relative location-id="mainpoint" distance-from="10m" bearing-to="20" relative-height="10m"/>

</location><category scheme="http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/sssd/naics/naicsrch?search=2007%20NAICS%20Search&code=611310">

<name xml:lang="en-US">Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools</name><association type="child-of" reference="http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/sssd/naics/naicsrch?search=2007%20NAICS

%20Search&code=6113"/>

</category>

</poi></pois>

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http://www.w3.org/2010/POI/documents/Core/core-

20110511.html

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public-poiwg@w3.org

Ruby Gold on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/13606325@N08/2416993706/

svenwerk on Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/svenwerk/858381180/

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Gary Gale, Director, Places Registry

gary.gale@nokia.comtwitter.com/vicchi

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