Sessions at Where 2.0 2011 about Location and Identifiers and Geo and Geolocation

Wednesday 20th April 2011

• Bootstrapping: Getting to an Open Spaces Database

  by Tom Coates, Matt Galligan, Justin Shaffer, Darian Shirazi and Christof Hellmis

  Stores, Malls, Bars – there locations are facts. Not owned by anyone, but gathering that data and just as importantly keeping it accurate is expensive. What can a startup do? Can they depend on larger players’ APIs? Should they buy the data? Should they depend on their users? Or should companies pool together and just maintain one canonical database of places?

  • Context and Location-based Services
  • Geo
  • Geolocation
  • Identifiers
  • Location

  At 4:20pm to 5:00pm, Wednesday 20th April