Tag Archives: place

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Feb 11

Talking About A Sense Of Place

Posted on 10th February 2011 by Gary

As a precursor to last week’s mashup* Digital Trends event, I chatted to Paul Squires of Imperica about my location trends in more detail than the mashup* format would have allowed for. The write-up from that interview is now up … Continue reading →

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Nov 10

Location vs. Place vs. POI

Posted on 16th November 2010 by Gary

With Nokia, Google, Facebook and a whole host of other players recognising the inherent value in the concept of Places and Points Of Interest (POIs), it’s good to see that the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the standards body of … Continue reading →

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Oct 10

Quantity Or Quality? The Problem Of Junk POIs

Posted on 13th October 2010 by Gary

In my recent talk to the British Computer Society’s Geospatial Specialist Group, I touched on the “race to own the Place Space“. While the more traditional geographic data providers, such as Navteq and Tele Atlas are working away adding Points … Continue reading →

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Aug 10

Grepping And Grokking The Etymology Of Grep

Posted on 1st August 2010 by Gary

I’ve been thinking a lot about the etymology of place names recently. That’s a slightly verbose way of saying that I’ve been thinking about the origin of place names and where they come from. Take London for example. That’s pretty … Continue reading →

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May 10

Your Place Is Not My Place; The Perils of Disambiguation

Posted on 10th May 2010 by Gary

We take the art of geographic lookup for granted these days; type a place name into a form on a web site or feed it into a web service API and hey presto! Most of the time you’ll be told … Continue reading →

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