My impression was that the Open Street Map project was attempting to solve this. At least that's what I picked up in the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake. If you haven't already, check out http://maps2.humaninet.org/ and http://www.humaninet.org/maps2/maps2-geo-usability-2010-1-12.pdf
We've got a couple of really sharp open source mapping geeks in PDX - try @GeoPDX and @elsewisemedia for starters. On Apr 15, 7:28 am, Raffi Krikorian <ra...@twitter.com> wrote: > > 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 Teamhttp://twitter.com/raffi -- To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
