tell them to hit me up. On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 8:49 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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 <[email protected]> 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. > -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi
