Do You Know the Way to 2488042?
| Monday, May 12th, 2008 | --jr |
Chances are, you probably know the way to San Jose. Well, provided you know which of them you wanted since there are only about 20 or so worldwide. Still if you're looking for somewhere like "Wine Country" that could have been a tad difficult.
Now, the fine folks at Yahoo! Geo have opened up their database allowing you to get a unique identifier for every spec and spot of this planet, well, most of them at least. There are also plans afoot to allow you to help add locations to the hay-UGE database they have of such spots.
This is wicked cool because it means that if you're looking for "Allemagne", you can see that they really meant Germany, or conversely, if you're wondering what those fine folks in Milan call Germany, you can get that too, and be assured that you're all talking about the same place.
Definitely cool.