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> I'm thinking of something like the RFC process for Internet protocols.
>

really - i think that's just too formal.  just mail the list, or hit
me/marcel up over email.


> Part of this stems from my concern over something I thought I heard

yesterday about Twitter building its own "place" database. There are
> dozens of place databases - why does Twitter need another one?


honestly, of all the place databases out there, none of them fit our needs.
 none of them have the combination of unrestrictive licensing + data and IDs
for countries going down to neighborhoods (arbitrarily sized things) + have
the ability for creation, updating, etc.  we are building something that
will be available through the API that the entire ecosystem can use (and,
not just for tweeting), so its a fairly unique set of constraints.

-- 
Raffi Krikorian
Twitter Platform Team
http://twitter.com/raffi

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