> He's using pretty much the same method that Kevin and I have been working
> on...sooo close :)
>
> Martin
>
> http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/apple/iphone-gps-hack-works-301459.php
>
> - a
It is amusing just how fast people are; it was pretty clearly low
hanging fruit...
At the same time it's still worth doing something here.
There's been this kind of unusual tension with location information
between for-profit interests, government and privacy and security
concerns, and the needs of individuals.
As individuals we'd like to have all data available all of the time
right now for free. We kind of expect that. Especially here in North
America with the US Census Bureau's mandate to collect and provide
geo-data more or less for free.
Yet there hasn't been enough of a critical mass of contributers yet to
build the equivalent of a Wikipedia for POI's. There's no centralized
depo, or formal georss aggregation hub or any kind of well established
pattern to build up a collection of all POI's.
And businesses haven't had quite the financial incentives to go ahead
and truly build comprehensive POI databases. A few folks of course
have taken a good stab at it.
Then there are all of the damping effects regarding security...
Personally I think the ideal solution would be to seek to build a free
POI database and foster an ecology...
For-profits can find ways to monetize around the edges; such as by
building brokerages to match buyers and sellers, or grooming the data
or finding new POI data { perhaps with a kind of capture and release
philosophy where they hold onto incoming new POI data for a while
before contributing it to the pool }.
This could be like what eventful.com does with evdb.
An iphone geolocation app itself could be a good starting point for
exercising such a database; it's clearly the best mobile device for
this kind of use by a consumer by far.
*
Not to talk about what I'm hacking on before it's done but in my
copious spare time I am porting tile.js from civicmaps.org to the
iphone as a native app. Maybe somebody will have a geo-location
solution that could dove-tail with it.
- a
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