http://code.davidjanes.com/blog/2009/11/14/twitter-use-woeids/ Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:41:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://code.davidjanes.com/blog/2009/11/14/twitter-use-woeids/comment-page-1/#comment-7577 David Janes Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:28:38 +0000 http://code.davidjanes.com/blog/?p=608#comment-7577 The WOEIDs for everything is certainly tying into a lot of things I've been thinking about recently, especially with regards to OpenData and cities. It would be nice if there was a standard way that cities (etc) could grab a million WOEIDs and define them in a standard way for property lines, municipal areas, etc. so now everyone has a common vocabulary/IDs for talking about places. Sort of a Google Transit-like idea, but for identifying places in cities. Then of course we have to consider issues such as what's the relationship of a business to it's property lines, businesses opening and closing, and so forth. Or am I reading to much into this? The WOEIDs for everything is certainly tying into a lot of things I’ve been thinking about recently, especially with regards to OpenData and cities. It would be nice if there was a standard way that cities (etc) could grab a million WOEIDs and define them in a standard way for property lines, municipal areas, etc. so now everyone has a common vocabulary/IDs for talking about places. Sort of a Google Transit-like idea, but for identifying places in cities. Then of course we have to consider issues such as what’s the relationship of a business to it’s property lines, businesses opening and closing, and so forth. Or am I reading to much into this?

]]> http://code.davidjanes.com/blog/2009/11/14/twitter-use-woeids/comment-page-1/#comment-7502 Gary Gale Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:59:06 +0000 http://code.davidjanes.com/blog/?p=608#comment-7502 Thanks for the post David; we think this is a significant announcement on the part of Twitter and we're really happy to see any and all uses of WOEIDs. When it comes to "dynamically/crowd defined" WOEIDs ... that needs a publicly accessible way to create and manage WOEIDs. We don't have such an API platform ... yet. But watch out for announcements on this towards the middle of next year. Thanks for the post David; we think this is a significant announcement on the part of Twitter and we’re really happy to see any and all uses of WOEIDs. When it comes to “dynamically/crowd defined” WOEIDs … that needs a publicly accessible way to create and manage WOEIDs. We don’t have such an API platform … yet. But watch out for announcements on this towards the middle of next year.

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