Comments on: Geomena: Could this be the Wikipedia of geolocation data?

By: diablo3

diablo3 — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:55:47 +0000

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By: Don Park

Don Park — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:49:48 +0000

Also, one update – the Windows and OS X instructions are how to the mac address of your own laptop, which is not what geomena needs. The location is based on the mac address of the access point being used at the time.

A desktop app is being planned so that its easy to feed new access point data to geomena.org.

By: Rick Turoczy

Rick Turoczy — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 06:50:50 +0000

@jmartens For what it’s worth, the Shizzow reference was mine. Don actually demonstrated the location awareness on another one of his apps that I’ll cover later. But since I can’t talk about that one yet, I picked Shizzow. ;)

By: Jmartens

Jmartens — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 06:45:24 +0000

Tons of potential here, great work Don!

Nice work on the random Shizzow reference, they can always count on you for that!

By: Marshall

Marshall — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:27:26 +0000

Thanks Don. Yeah, I’d love to learn more about it. I love the idea. I bet you could come up with something interesting to put up on the site after I enter my info that would demonstrate the potential. Like “you’re the 52nd person in Portland, Oregon to enter your location data into Geomena. 15% of those people were within one mile of where you are right now. The most popular neighborhood in Portland for Geomena users is Gresham.” Something like that. Good luck with it though.

By: Don Park

Don Park — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:09:44 +0000

Marshall – the “now what” is when you’re using firefox on a location-aware site and you can see that the new data you entered into geomena.org shows up inside that website. As far as which CC license – I’m gathering input from people who have experience in that area to help nail down the licensing.

Geomena will be presented at Wherecamp PDX and will have more meat on it by then. I’d be glad to meet with you and show you how it works currently.

By: Marshall Kirkpatrick

Marshall Kirkpatrick — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:01:06 +0000

What CC license are you using Don?

Ok, so I just submitted my info but *now what?* Some level of UI, some interesting value add for me, would sure be nice if the project is going public now. Specifically, I’d like to write about this myself but I’m not sure there’s enough meat on the dream yet to do so.

By: Don Park

Don Park — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:10:53 +0000

Thank you for such a complete post on this project! It hit all the important ideas and I’m excited to see where it will go next. One area is to get new access point data into the site with an iPhone and Android application that is always listening for access points and feeding geomena.org.

Also for those interested in the implementation, all the sourcecode is online (see geomena.org) and the storage engine is couchdb.